NSoT engineers have built Vagrantfiles for you to deploy NSoT software in a multitude of linux environments. This tutorial will help you load a Macintonsh computer (OS X) with Vagrant, Virtual Box, and dependencies so that you can start virtual servers and test the software.
NSoT publishes complete installation instructions for linux distributions, branch versions, and Vagrantfiles in addition to, not an alternative for the pip install method:
$ pip-install nsot