I'm going to try one more thing. I'm going to git clone the repo then make ..... and see what shakes loose
I deleted everything related to wolf-xmr-miner and emptied the trash --- a clean slate.
Then .....
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner
cd /home/monerominer/wolf-xmr-miner
make
Use gedit to edit xmr.conf to change the configuration to suit ( IE pool info & wallet address.paymentID)
./miner xmr.conf
And its working.... now for the tweaking
Thanks for the help.