Comment 9 for bug 1654583

I now downloaded the build-18 package for reference (and data for build-18) and unpacked the deb. Got it from packages.ubuntu.com and it's the package for my Ubuntu version. After copying a font file around, I was able to run build-18 under my home dir. So:

The starting menu views and presumably the whole game works. Build-19 of course still doesn't work, so this is only for reference.

This is the output of build-18 before I quit the game:
dakkus@ubuntu:~/Descargas/widelands18$ ./usr/games/widelands --datadir=/home/dakkus/Descargas/widelands18/usr/share/games/widelands/
Set home directory: /home/dakkus/.widelands
No version file found
Adding directory: /home/dakkus/Descargas/widelands18/usr/share/games/widelands/
Version file found with id "build-18" (real "build-18" )
No version file found
selected language: (system language)
using locale es_ES.UTF-8
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=&
Graphics: Trying Video driver: 0 x11 SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11
Graphics: Trying opengl
Graphics: Try to set Videomode 800x600 32 Bit
Graphics: Setting video mode was successful
Graphics: OpenGL: OpenGL enabled
Graphics: OpenGL: Double buffering enabled
Graphics: OpenGL: Max texture size: 2048
Graphics: OpenGL: Number of aux buffers: 0
Graphics: OpenGL: Number of stencil buffer bits: 8
Graphics: OpenGL: Maximum number of textures for multitextures: 8
Graphics: OpenGL: Version 1.4 "1.4 Mesa 11.2.0"
Graphics: OpenGL: Textures may have any size
Graphics: OpenGL: Multitexture capabilities sufficient
**** GRAPHICS REPORT ****
 VIDEO DRIVER x11
 hw surface possible 0
 window manager available 1
 blitz_hw 0
 blitz_hw_CC 0
 blitz_hw_A 0
 blitz_sw 0
 blitz_sw_CC 0
 blitz_sw_A 0
 blitz_fill 0
 video_mem 0
 vfmt 0x8823d58
 size 800 600
**** END GRAPHICS REPORT ****
Graphics: flags: 2
[] Section [global], key 'EXENAME' not used (did you spell the name correctly?)
Sound_Handler: loaded song "music/intro_00.ogg"
Sound_Handler: loaded song "music/menu_00.ogg"