Steam client needs to be installed before base server install, or server crashes with wine runtime error

[LongFluffDragon]

Without it, the test launch of the ark server throws a runtime error. This error seems to happen in heroic and some other similar software when steam is not installed and may be related to UMU

This is tested on a fresh install of debian 13, kde plasma desktop if it could somehow matter

The error reads, roughly;

Wine C++ Runtime Library

Assertion failed!

Program: Z:\home\arkserver-debian\Linux-ASA-Server-Manager\server-files
File: ../src-lsteamclient_main.c
Line: 375
Expression: "!status"

Installing steam client and running the base install again works correctly.

[dragginlord-netizen]

I'm getting the same error message on Zorin OS 18. I haven't tried installing the steam client first, but have done the base install several times with no change.

[dragginlord-netizen]

This may shed some insight to the issue: Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher#4636

[dragginlord-netizen]

Okay, finally noticed that this issue has been somewhat addressed in two previous bug reports #28 and #21. Please see these for the workaround.