11/06/2019

KCM Wacom settings on (K)ubuntu 16.04

There's a handy KDE System Settings module for configuring Wacom tablets - calibration, screen areas, you name it. I was rather keen to have it handle my old Graphire4 on a multi screen setup on my work desktop (Ubuntu 16.05).
Sadly, the wacomtablet package (https://github.com/KDE/wacomtablet) seems to have been dropped from the repos between 14.04 and 19.04 due to ongoing bugfixes in dependencies. They do offer instructions for manual compiling - with dire warnings that there'd there be no easy uninstall. 'make uninstall' worked nicely, though.
However, I kept running into missing headers etc., until I found the one version that worked, 2.9.82.

Command line log:
wget https://github.com/KDE/wacomtablet/archive/v2.9.82.zip 
unzip v2.9.82.zip 
cd wacomtablet-2.9.82 
mkdir build 
cd build  
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON 
make 
sudo make install

Et voilĂ !