How to make the Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen CTL-471 work on Lucid Lynx 10.04?

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I've tried many sites and none of them have worked thus far. When I plug my Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen (CTL-471), the tablet lights up and it responses to the pen, but nothing is working. No response from my computer when I move the pen over the active area. How can I get it to work?

I'm using the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 with the version 2.6.32-46-generic kernel. When I type in lsusb, it shows up as " Bus 004 Device 006: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd ".

Update (Apr 30, 2013) I tried lekensteyn's way:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lekensteyn/wacom-tablet
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms

Everything worked until I entered sudo apt-get update. The terminal starts spitting out lines until it reaches an error:

    ... Hits and Igns ...
    Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages                               
    404  Not Found
    Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages                               
    404  Not Found
    Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid Release
    Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid/free Packages
    Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid/non-free Packages
    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/irie/wacom/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  
    404  Not Found

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/lekensteyn/wacom-tablet/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  
    404  Not Found

    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Then I tried to go to Software Sources and add the APT line ppa:lekensteyn/wacom-tablet and nothing happened. The window for adding the APT closes and I'm left staring at the SOftware Sources window. I tried restarting and nothing changed.

I'm at a lost now.

Have you reviewed some of this related post? How to install Wacom Bamboo Pen - Wacom Bamboo Capture CTH-470 Pen and Touch not working - Wacom Bamboo Pen CTL 470 not working in 11.10 — Lucio, Apr 30 '13 at 21:09
I have. But, some of the things are different. Like the ubuntu version and the tablet version. I tried doctormo's before. — Andrew, Apr 30 '13 at 21:13
@Andrew The doctormo PPA is older (March 2011). Try my PPA in the other linked questions. — Lekensteyn, Apr 30 '13 at 21:45
@Lekensteyn I tried the one that was linked above, but then I got an error. — Andrew, Apr 30 '13 at 23:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

This has to do with 10.04 LTS becoming an EOL release on May 9th, since the recent release of 13.04. Since the packages and everything were moved (/will be? I'm not exactly sure when this happens) to an archive, away from the normal server your terminal is trying to contact, the normal methods of updating/installing don't work.

So the only real suggestion we can give on this site (since we don't deal with EOLs) is: Upgrade to a supported version. The best method is to do a fresh install with a LiveUSB/CD, but upgrading should work as well.

See this article if you still really want to stay on 10.04 and install software.

How to make the Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen CTL-471 work on Lucid Lynx 10.04?

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