minimal installation

Hi list,

I'm a newbie to Linux and to librsvg, so please bare with me. I have a 
shared hosted account at http://www.dreamhost.com. On my account, I run 
Trac (http://trac.edgewall.com) as a bug tracker and wiki. I use the 
Graphviz plugin (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GraphvizPlugin) so I easily 
can visualize and create process maps and other charts. All this works 
great for me.

My problem comes to when I try to get Graphviz to generate anti aliased 
png's. For that functionality, one needs to have librsvg installed 
(according to the plugin documentation 
http://trac-hacks.org/browser/graphvizplugin/0.9/Readme.txt). The 
instructions for installing librsvg states that librsvg depends on the 
libxml and libart library (http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/download/). 
libxml is already installed on the shared machine (which runs Debian), 
located at /usr/lib , and I installed library at ~/lib/ (in my local 
account).

Now when I run the configuration file, it asks for glib-2.0. I installed 
glib, put it on the path (export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig, 
and now it asks for gdk-pixbuf-2.0

I went ahead to try to install gtk+, and had to start with installing a 
bunch of dependencies, all required according to the documentation 
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html). However, 
as I try to install gtk, it asks for x-library etc. It seems like I, or 
the server, doesn't have the necessary head files installed for x11, but 
what do I know ;-) I was looking at installing, 
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/X11R70Release, but it seams to be even 
a worth nightmare of dependencies etc.

Please, what should I do. Should I continue installing all this 
dependencies, or should I just forget about running librsvg on a shared 
machine? Or, is the an easier, minimal installation of librsvg that I 
could do?

Best,
/jonas höglund