Here the basic installation of Sawfish from GIT in a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze/Wheezy hybrid from an initial Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a installation without a desktop is described. Caution: This is a raw installation into /usr/local without package manager, and it is not recommended, if your distribution provides reasonably up-do-date packages or if you're inexperienced. If you proceed, first uninstall the packages coming from your distribution, if you don't do so, you'll very likely run into trouble.