README for librsvg NOTES Version 2.39.0 is the last one with support for GTK+2: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/2.40/librsvg-2.40.0.news POST-INSTALL To register SVG as a loadable module for gdk-pixbuf you must run: # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache To do that also you can execute the post-install script.