configure: error: Please reinstall the libzip distribution

Question

I am getting this error, when trying to install Zip for PHP 7:

pecl install zip 

yields the error

configure: error: Please reinstall the libzip distribution

I did not find anything related to this error.

I tried apt-get install libzip but the package was not found.

Answer 1

Solved it:

apt-get install libzip-dev 

will install the missing libzip-distribution