[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10738) Installed freeciv-2.0.0-beta2 doesn't start or load games

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10738 >

Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:

> It seems the client can't locate your server binary for some reason or
> connect to it.
> 
> By default it tries to spawn "./ser", "./server/civserver" and "civserver".
> Do you know where the server executable is in your installation?
> 
> FWIW, you can provide more info if you start the client thus:
> 
> $ civclient --log logfile

The executable is probably in /usr/local/freeciv/bin/.  This is surely 
not in the $PATH, and the client inexplicably never looks there when 
trying to launch the server.

jason