Installing Wacom tablet drivers on Ubuntu 18.04

Stackoverflow question that solved my problem


Summery :

First install the following pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential 

sudo apt-get install autoconf

Download and untar input-wacom from hehttps://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/releasesre

Move into the directory where your downloaded driver resides and enter the following in the terminal:

if test -x ./autogen.sh; then ./autogen.sh; else ./configure; fi && make && sudo make install || echo "Build Failed"

To get the verion of the kernel module, enter the following into a terminal:

modinfo wacom | grep version

Finally update the kernel driver with the following:

sudo -s apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-wacom' 

backup link to drivers file