Working on sudden page number appearance

instructions.tex

@@ -187,8 +187,9 @@ Some information is at the top of \path{main.tex} file, this file is for a gener
    The author's recommendations for RedHat distributions such as Redhat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Fedora are in Listing~\ref{code:texlive-redhat}.
    Debian-based distributions including Ubuntu and PopOS would use the packages in Listing~\ref{code:texlive-debian}.
 
+   % TODO: orcidlink
    \begin{lstlisting}[caption={RedHat Packages},label={code:texlive-redhat}]
-       sudo dnf -y install texlive-scheme-medium texlive-collection-{fontsrecommended,luatex,latexrecommended} texlive-biblatex-{apa,apa-doc,ieee,ieee-doc} texlive-{amsfonts,amsmath,canoniclayout,eepic,gitinfo2,fixme,makeglos,nomencl,lastpage,lipsum,listings,ltxkeys,pgf,pseudocode,stix2-otf,stix2-type1,siunitx,xurl}
+       sudo dnf -y install texlive-scheme-medium texlive-collection-{fontsrecommended,luatex,latexrecommended} texlive-biblatex-{apa,apa-doc,ieee,ieee-doc} texlive-{amsfonts,amsmath,canoniclayout,ccicons,eepic,gitinfo2,fixme,makeglos,nomencl,lastpage,lipsum,listings,ltxkeys,pgf,pseudocode,stix2-otf,stix2-type1,siunitx,xurl}
      \end{lstlisting}
      \begin{lstlisting}[caption={Debian/Ubuntu Packages},label={code:texlive-debian}]
        sudo apt-get -y install texlive texlive-luatex texlive-latex-extra texlive-science texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-european texlive-lang-german latex-xcolor texlive-pictures pgf texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-publishers chktex evince fonts-lmodern lmodern biber

main.tex

@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
 
 \begin{document}
 %% TODO: get the official cover graphic and have the system fill in the fields for you
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\pagestyle{empty}
 \maketitle{}
 %\signaturepage{} %Generally only for Print copies & now defunct in the Engineering department.
 

ruthesis.sty

@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ BoldItalicFont={*-BoldItalic}]
   \textbf{{\Large \theSchool}}\par\end{center}
 }
 \aliaspagestyle{title}{empty}
-
 \aliaspagestyle{titlinpage}{empty}  
 %% ----- Inside Cover is COPYRIGHT page-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 \RequirePackage{ccicons}% need for copyright \textcopyright{}
@@ -266,9 +265,12 @@ in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement
 \makeoddhead{plain}{}{}{\thepage}
 
 \makepagestyle{cover}% The cover pages have no page numbers
+\makeoddhead{cover}{}{}{}
+\makeevenhead{cover}{}{}{}
 \makeoddfoot{cover}{}{}{}
 \makeevenfoot{cover}{}{}{}
 
+
 \newcommand{\frontmatterhead}[1]{{%based upon \chapterhead from memman.pdf p.84
     % \clearpage% move to correct page
     \disableindents%