Got the installer working. Fixed a few bugs including a nasty-to-debug issue where the lang_id was being hardcoded during installation, resulting in strings being inserted with the wrong lang_id causing an infinfinite loop with fetch() throwing a "no strings" error and using template (which calls fetch()) to complain
#!/bin/bash
for f in *.svg; do
echo Converting $f
fname=`echo $f | cut -d '.' -f 1`
rm -f $fname.png
inkscape -z -f $f -w 22 -h 22 -e ./$fname.png
done