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Reason why I wanted to start it from the compile folder was that I never compiled or installed anything on Linux before. I did not want to destroy anything because of missing knowledge. The install chapter is quite complicated (not a criticism, I know the different Linux derivates) and therefore I d...

Maybe I misunderstood the Install documentation completely. It says: "It's perfectly feasible to play Freeciv in this directory, without installing it. If you do this, the "fcgui" and "fcser" scripts may be useful, although they are not as necessary as they used to be."...

OK, it seems you are on the right track. I renamed the installed 2.5.3 server and now the output is as follows:
1: Failed to connect to spawned server!

Question is, why GUI does not use local server in its folder but tries to start installed server. I am not really familliar with Linux internals.

OK, you give explanation while I still trying to test something. Option -A none describes the 'weird' behaviour.
So problems remains, why I cannot start and connect to server from the client GUI.

Update to last post: If I start server with settings -p 5557 --bind localhost -q 1 -e --saves ~/.freeciv/saves --scenarios ~/.freeciv/scenarios -A none the server is not visible in 'Local Area Network' list, BUT I can connect to it, when I press 'connect' (sorry for wrong description above). It seem...

1st question: I have another freeciv server installed (2.5.3), but I compiled 2.5.10 in the same way as I did now with 2.6.0 and 2.5.10 works in this way. 2nd question: Output is: 3: Arguments to spawned server: -p 5557 --bind localhost -q 1 -e --saves ~/.freeciv/saves --scenarios ~/.freeciv/scenari...

Hello there, I compiled FreeCiv 2.6 from the source and installed it on Linux (L)ubuntu 16.04. No errors were shown compiling it. I started it in the compile folder using scrip fcgui. The GTK start screen is launched correctly. However, if I click on the buttons to start a new game, start a scenario...