librsvg-2.61.4

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 13.0

### Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

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# librsvg-2.61.4

## Introduction to librsvg

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

### Note

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.0 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/librsvg/2.61/librsvg-2.61.4.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: e9a1654bd98cda161933cc9ab85ee15b

- Download size: 6.5 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 1.2 GB (18 MB installed; add 510 MB for tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (add 0.3 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)

### librsvg Dependencies

#### Required

Cairo-1.18.4, cargo-c-0.10.20, and Pango-1.57.0

### Note

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-2.44.5, GLib-2.86.4 (with GObject Introspection), and Vala-0.56.18

#### 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-2.61.4', '--no-namespace-dir',|" \
        -e '/output/s|Rsvg-2.0|librsvg-2.61.4|'                      \
        -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-2.61.4

### 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

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