diff --git a/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/0036-INSTALL.meson-Replace-home-cazfi-with-home-user-in-e.patch b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/0036-INSTALL.meson-Replace-home-cazfi-with-home-user-in-e.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5795ff0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv/0036-INSTALL.meson-Replace-home-cazfi-with-home-user-in-e.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From 9c4cc96e176e9fc7049a7f44be1efcf36df3fd9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:20:09 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH 36/36] INSTALL.meson: Replace /home/cazfi with /home/user in
+ examples
+
+See RM #2175
+
+Signed-off-by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74@gmail.com>
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+---
+ doc/INSTALL.meson | 6 +++---
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.meson b/doc/INSTALL.meson
+index 670a914dea..ba4ab8e666 100644
+--- a/doc/INSTALL.meson
++++ b/doc/INSTALL.meson
+@@ -98,15 +98,15 @@ Configure options:
+ 
+ Configure options are given as '-D<option>=<value>'.
+ For example to set freeciv installation prefix as
+-'/home/cazfi/freeciv-install':
++'/home/user/freeciv-install':
+ 
+-> meson setup ../src -Dprefix=/home/cazfi/freeciv-install
++> meson setup ../src -Dprefix=/home/user/freeciv-install
+ 
+ You can give configure options when you first set up the build directory
+ (like in example above), or you can change configure options for the
+ build directory later by 'meson configure' subcommand like this:
+ 
+-> meson configure -Dprefix=/home/cazfi/freeciv-install
++> meson configure -Dprefix=/home/user/freeciv-install
+ 
+ You get full list of configure options by running 'meson configure'
+ subcommand without any configure options to set
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_3.2.5.bb b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_3.2.5.bb
index 1c307f7..a670a34 100644
--- a/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_3.2.5.bb
+++ b/recipes-games/freeciv/freeciv_3.2.5.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ DEPENDS += "lua"
 SRC_URI += "\
 ${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/freeciv/freeciv-${PV}.tar.xz \
 file://allow-root-S3_2.patch \
+file://0036-INSTALL.meson-Replace-home-cazfi-with-home-user-in-e.patch \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d32808f02a9b9f49ef159bcbf266b16ce2a3ce6ea8f71115d80f952c3cc609e8"