I will but I blew that VM away and will need to reload it. I am currently working on another approach that is showing promise (mama always said I was pigheaded):
### adapted from https://www.geany.org/Download/Git#nightly ####
# you need all of the following installed sudo apt-get install autoconf sudo apt-get install libtool sudo apt-get install make sudo apt-get install gettext sudo apt-get install pkg-config sudo apt-get install intltool sudo apt-get install gcc sudo apt-get install g++ sudo apt-get install glib2.0 sudo apt-get install gtk2.0 sudo apt-get install docutils-common sudo apt-get install git
cd ~/Downloads git clone git://github.com/geany/geany.git geany cd geany ./autogen.sh
# follow instructions in file named "INSTALL" # at this point you might wish to create a backup copy
./autogen.sh Make make check sudo make install