Wacom drivers will not install

So, here it is my new question/discussion:

Wacom driver woes: won't install and/or won't work

I thought I should create it so that it would appear in the Sierra forums and had a more accurate title (as the drivers now appear to install, albeit in an unusable state).

Hi again, guys!

I have an update for you but, alas, it's not a good one… Wacom updated its driver for older products in December '16, and I eagerly downloaded it expecting it to both correct some flakiness I was experiencing under Sierra 10.12.2 (my driver was randomly crapping out and asking me to restart my Mac) and the unacceptable system language bug.

Well… lo and behold, it apparently did fix the latter (I haven't tested the driver long enough to be sure about the former), but… only cosmetically. When installing the new driver version with my system language set to Portuguese (Portugal) I no longer got the dreaded error, though the installer did take a while on the “Registering Updated Components…” stage. I (erroneously and optimistically) thought that everything went fine… Nope! I was still getting an error message telling me to restart my Mac, which I did multiple times to no avail.

Knowing all too well about this bug, I removed the driver and, once again, reinstalled it with the system language set to English. The installation was much quicker (basically, it wasn't stuck on the “Registering Updated Components…” stage anymore) and now the driver works fine with any system language…

So, to sum it up: the driver installation still fails due, I'm guessing, to the same bug, but now the users are led to believe that it works because they get no error messages whatsoever!

I believe I should set up a new thread with a different title, summing all this flustercuck up and possibly linking to this thread, so that international users may find answers when their driver updates inevitably bork their Wacom tablets… It's either that, or me and/or those users doing that kind of YouTube video I vowed to do earlier… 😉

Kappy is rude and not helpful.

ShamSham's preferences trick did not work for me.

JimmyCMPIT's solution was the only thing that worked for me:

Use the "Wacom Tablet Utility" to delete all the software.

Restart.

Download and reinstall the latest Wacom software from Wacom's site.

Restart.

Should be good to go.

I had a similar problem where I couldn't get through the driver installation process. it kept saying verifying with a loading bar that never moved, so to fix this I went into the "system preferences", then I went into "Ink" and turned on handwriting recognition. Then all of a sudden it worked. Not sure if this was luck or what, but if it works for anyone else than great!

Do what has been suggested. Or are you simply reluctant for help?

Merely responding to what you posted. You are the one reluctant to accept the advice that was given to you. Sit and wonder to your heart's content. I'm wondering why you were given perfectly good advice and chose to ignore it.

Advising somebody to re-install a complete OS in order to install some driver or software package cannot be considered as a 'good advice'. Especially when it is given without the extra instructions not to restore from a Time Machine backup, as it will restore the system exactly to the state it was before. It will take you days to get your system to the state it was before without using TM.

Advising to install under a different account doesn't count as a good advice in this instance either, as the installer needs admin access and thus permission are raised above the one of the current user.

Anyway, I'm having the same issue and I wonder wether G.J. Mullaly ever found a solution.

I just installed the Wacom Drivers on my iMac 2007 4GB RAM Yosemite 10.10 and it worked without a hitch. You need to DL the drives from here:

bit.ly/10ecd8W

the ones on the installer that comes bundled with the hardware will not work at all. Also there is an issue with install/reinstall and there is an explanation of the procedure on Facebook. Either way this is WACOM telling tablet users on Yosemite what needs to be done with THEIR SOFTWARE IN ORDER TO GET IT TO WORK, so they know the problem exists.

www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152359042496691

Thanks for the reply, removing the driver with the utility didn't work for me. Removing any remaining Wacom files manually did the trick.

I didn't link a utility, I linked the correct drivers for Yosemite.

Follow the video then reinstall the driver I linked from Wacom, that is the procedure.

Happy New Year Jimmy,

Indeed you did not link a utility, but the utility is mentioned in the video you linked.

I had the exact same issue as the original poster.

The problem:

The problem appears to be the drivers from Wacom do no install successfully if the the language is other than US English - my language was English - Australia.

What I did to solve the problem:

Open "System Preferences"

Click "Language and Region"

Under the 'Preferred Languages' box, select the + button to add another language

Select "English - English"

Select 'Use English' button when the sheet asks you "Would you like to use English as your primary language"

Install the latest Wacom drivers (http://us.wacom.com/en/support/drivers/)

The drivers should install successfully and your Wacom tablet should now work!

You can then change back to your original language settings.

I hope that helps!

Credit to: http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20998

U the Man ShamSham, did what u said and BINGO! Cause im so happy after so many failed installations with wacom drivers, u just nailed it:)

Again: THX;)