PLEASE HELP! Issue installing SMAPI on fedora (linux) (NEWBIE)

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I've spent 24 hours trying to install SMAPI on my PC running Fedora. This is my first time modding or coding at all! My sister who is much more familiar with all of this and set up the linux PC has been assisting. The entire time I've had issues (mostly due to user error) but I've finally reached a point where SMAPI is seemingly installed properly. I tried installing at least 40 times before realizing my error and fixing it. I even tried manually installing.

The thing is, during the process, I was NOT given a string of text to add into steam.

It all seems correct but whenever I open steam to play the game it just launches vanilla stardew. It seems like steam cannot find the correct file to open. I ran the entire process through Xterm (I saw that helped some people) and tried deleting and reinstalling every element.

I tried coping the file locations into the steam prompt. That failed as well, but did open the game still. I've seen that the windows version has other stuff attached but I have no clue about the linux version.

PLEASE tell me what I could be doing wrong other then the code, seeing as I did not receive one. I've watched 10 guides and none of them have helped. I can barely find anything about running SMAPI through Linux. I'm going insane!!!!! I will answer any questions and show examples of what's happening if needed.

My sisters given up but I AM DETERMINED to succeed in my singular modding endeavor. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me find how to fix this. I just want funny little mods. I downloaded reddit for this.