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I hit this problem myself. Fortunately, there's a solution (an alternative tarball) discussed here.

Not sure what's to be done with the broken "official" tarball tho.

EV56?? You have it running on an Alpha?? o_O Yup, I am the proud owner of an old half-gutted rust-bucket of an Aspen Systems Durango II (PC164LX+600MHz EV56). It's no speed demon by today's standards tho. I guess it's kind of a pleasant surprise that celestia is Alpha-ready, eh? And you discovered ...