Yesterday, I completely started over by formatting a 32 Gb Micro USB card and installed Raspbian 3.2 on it.

Although some success with compiling under Geany, having problems with Vector. Maybe std::vector is not compatible with my version of c++.

9/24/2019 - sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Right now, able to run vncserver as the pi user, then connecting to it with VNC Viewer from normal workstation. Had to fiddle to get screen bigger. Connecting using alternate window 192.168.0.8:2