Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r13.0-584

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

librsvg-2.62.2

Introduction to librsvg

The librsvg package contains a library and tools used to manipulate, convert and view Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images.

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Package Information

librsvg Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.18.4, cargo-c-0.10.21, and Pango-1.57.1

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An Internet connection is needed for building this package. The system certificate store may need to be set up with make-ca-1.16.1 before building this package.

Recommended

gdk-pixbuf-2.44.6, GLib-2.88.1 (with GObject Introspection), and Vala-0.56.19

Optional

dav1d-1.5.3 (to support embedded AVIF in SVG), docutils-0.22.4 (for man pages), and Gi-DocGen-2026.1 (for documentation)

Installation of librsvg

First, fix the installation path of the API documentation: 

sed -e "/OUTDIR/s|,| / 'librsvg-2.62.2', '--no-namespace-dir',|" \
    -e '/output/s|Rsvg-2.0|librsvg-2.62.2|'                      \
    -i doc/meson.build

Install librsvg by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: 

meson test -v

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: rsvg-convert
Installed Library: librsvg-2.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/librsvg-2.0 and /usr/share/doc/librsvg-2.62.2

Short Descriptions

rsvg-convert

is used to convert images into PNG, PDF, PS, SVG and other formats

librsvg-2.so

provides the functions to render Scalable Vector Graphics