Receive permission error when applying Drupal (Zen) template

I installed Drupal today and tried to apply the popular 'Zen' template through my web host provider and received a permission denied issue when uncompressing the theme. To fix this I visited the administration page and clicked Configuration>File System (under Media) and changed the default 'Temporary directory' from '/TMP' to 'files/TMP'. Once I applied this change I was able to successfully apply the Zen Drupal template!