Cannot install anything with Lutris

i cant help you with that i don’t have any experience with that OS to know how it works. i use GStreamer myself, and i don’t have the problem, but then again, I’m also on POP!_OS.

understood, thank you for trying to help so far (even though I did not find a solution)
just to add, I tried to run games with Heroic games launcher (that relies on wine like Lutris) and there’s a very peculiar log on it that did catch my attention and also confirms that the issue is related to Wine:

[cli] INFO: Logging in...
[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
[cli] INFO: Checking for updates...
[Core] INFO: Getting authentication token...
[cli] INFO: Launching 41869934302e4b8cafac2d3c0e7c293d...
wine client error:0: version mismatch 738/741.
Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly,
or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH.
Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running?

so naturally, I created a post in Wine forums but I cannot share its link simply because it did not get the approval yet

Try to check this out .
https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=15888

or this one.

that’s interesting, I just changed the DE to KDE Plasma and Lutris got over the step that it fails on previously

cool. i also change to KDE Plasma like yesterday to try a new environment.

what change when I booted into Wayland is that the error happens now more rapidly
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/SKh7Hp8HVr/

from what i understand it has something to do with XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

have you tried to install it in wine like this
that’s how i install most of my game that’s not steam

thank you, this video is very helpful especially with illegal games (I don’t have any choice, I either buy games for large sums of money, 60DT for the cheapest one, or download an illegal version) or games that exist in platforms where there are no installer scripts