2.4 - Install from Prebuilt

We have created 2 sets of prebuilt Wacom X driver and its utility programs under linuxwacom-0.8.4-4/prebuilt; one for x86-32 systems, the other for x86-64 systems.

If you don't plan to change anything in the driver, following steps will install the prebuilt files for you:

Note: Please remove the existing linuxwacom package if your distro has installed one for you. Use the command, such as yum remove or apt-get uninstall, provided by your distro. Please DO NOT remove the driver files manually by rm.

[jej@ayukawa jej]$ cd linuxwacom-0.8.4-4/prebuilt
[jej@ayukawa prebuilt]$ su
[jej@ayukawa prebuilt]# ./uninstall
[jej@ayukawa prebuilt]# ./install

Serial tablet (most Tablet PCs are serial) users can skip the rest sections and go to Viewing Wacom Data (wacdump) page for details on viewing the tablet output now.

If you use an older USB tablet and your running kernel was released 6 months later than your tablet was first seen in market, you most probably can skip next section of this chapter and the whole chapter 4 too. If you would like to make certain, continue to next section.

Note:If the prebuilt driver doesn't work for you, you would probably end up building your own driver in the following sections. Kory Prince has provided a Python script, getwacom.py, to download, compile, and install the latest linuxwacom release. Please try Kory's script if you like to take a shortcut to install the driver.