These are setup instructions from scratch for an Ubuntu 12.04 single-machine configuration.
Run the following:
sudo su
apt-get install make python-scipy python-matplotlib
wget https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3.1/tarball/
tar xzvf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
python setup.py install
apt-get install python-setuptools rabbitmq-server
easy_install celery django-celery