To install Deliverance manually, it is recommeded that you first get virtualenv and create a working environment for Deliverance and its dependencies:

virtualenv deliverance_env
source deliverance_env/bin/activate

Checkout and setup Deliverance, then make sure your installation is complete by running the tests:

svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/deliverance/trunk deliverance
cd deliverance
python setup.py develop
nosetests

You can also run the tests like this:

deliverance_env/bin/deliverance-tests
deliverance_env/bin/deliverance-speed 

If you intend to use the Deliverance Proxy, you should also

easy_install PasteScript

Your miliage may vary depending on platform, for OS X in particular. If you encounter segfaults or other strange failures, installing recent versions of libxml2, libxslt and lxml may help. Also see Martin Aspeli's manual setup steps

The easiest way to get Deliverance and recent versions of libxml2, et alia installed is to checkout the buildout and follow the instructions in README.txt

svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/deliverance/buildout/trunk deliverance.buildout

You may also find Martin Aspeli's Deliverance Buildout Recipe and instructions useful

on to using the proxy