I can't get crossplay to work with Valheim on Debian 10

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I'm running a Valheim instance with LinuxGSM on Debian 10 but after recent updates and enabling crossplay it won't work. I'm seeing the following error in my console log:

Unable to preload the following plugins:
    libparty.so

Why isn't it working and how do I fix this?

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Required Dependencies

This is likely related to dependency issue with the pulseaudio library and libc6 packages (following the Mistlands and crossplay updates). The following additional packages are required to use crossplay and should be updated to the latest stable version:

Debian 9 & 10 Limitations

Dedicated Valheim servers will now need a libc6 version of 2.29+. However, if you're running Debian 10 or earlier, you won't be able to update it past 2.28. To get around this on Debian, you have 2 options:

Before you proceed with either option, be sure to back up your instance and world/server files.

Check Installed Package Versions

You can compare your installed package versions to the versions available for your systems repos with the following command:

apt-cache policy libpulse0 libpulse-dev libatomic1 libc6

The output should look similar to this:

apt-cache policy libpulse0 libpulse-dev libatomic1 libc6
libpulse0:
  Installed: 14.2-2
  Candidate: 14.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 14.2-2 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libpulse-dev:
  Installed: 14.2-2
  Candidate: 14.2-2
  Version table:
 *** 14.2-2 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libatomic1:
  Installed: 10.2.1-6
  Candidate: 10.2.1-6
  Version table:
 *** 10.2.1-6 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libc6:
  Installed: 2.31-13+deb11u5
  Candidate: 2.31-13+deb11u5
  Version table:
 *** 2.31-13+deb11u5 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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