Install Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) from the SBCL web site 
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html or as an ECLIPSE 
plug-in http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/index.html

Download NOVA's lisp code. To see what versions are available, 
browse http://unbox.org/wisp/tags/nova . To obtain version "X", download 
http://unbox.org/wisp/tags/nova/X/nova-X.zip  into a clean directory.

In a clean directory

       unzip nova-X.zip
       cd nova/lisp

Start SBCL and try
      
      CL-USER> (load "make.lisp")

This should produce something that looks like this:

     --------------------------------------------------
     Welcome to NOVA v0.1
     Copyright (C) 2008 Tim Menzies tim@menzies.us 

     This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY- 
     for details type (copyright). This is free software, 
     and you are welcome to redistribute it
     under certain conditions; type (copyright),
     --------------------------------------------------