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I don't know how to install the drivers for it, and such complicated matters are a little above me. Can anyone help me?

Seriously I am on the verge of screaming

What's the exact model number of this tablet?
The watcom website doesn't indicate that they support linux themselves, so the disk that would come with the tablet might not have a linux driver on it.
However the forum hit's I'm getting from google seem to indicate that the kernel already has support in it.

I wonder if the gimp would discover it as an input device?
That's why I asked if the lsusb command lists it.
You sometimes have to run lsusb as root (sudo) to get full information.

Check ubuntu and linux mint forums for information.

watcom has a support forum on their site too.

I am not familiar with this device.

I don't understand half of what you said. :T Seriously, what's a command line window?

EDIT: I think that the model is PTH-451

The command line window is under system->konsole
you can also open a separate window to login to a command line session with <ctrl><alt><f1> and return to the gui with <ctrl><alt><f7> (all keys pressed at once)

A review of this on amazon (sept 26 2013)mentioned linux:
While Wacom does not officially support Linux, they seem to have devs working on a Linux driver. This tablet is still very new at the time of this writing, but support is already lined up for the next version of the Linux Kernel. I use Arch Linux and it only took half an hour to setup including building the kernel drivers from source.. (building the kernel drivers from source will not be necessary in the next few weeks as it will be included with the kernel by default). The xf86-input-wacom package is needed to add Wacom support to X11, which for a three week old tablet seems to fully support all of the features including multi-touch gestures, the scroll wheel, and the buttons. The pressure sensitivity also works fabulously. I was pleasantly surprised.

some more links to look at:
http://linuxwacom-discuss.996327.n3.nabble.com/PTH-451-K-support-td7349.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949

It appears that native support for this tablet might not yet be in the mainstream linux kernel and that compiling and building a new kernel from source, or installing the latest binary kernel package might be required. There also seems to be an X11 module package that must be installed. The link to sourceforge that was mentioned in some of the forums seems to be down at the moment.

Building and installing a kernel isn't the hardest thing to do, but trying to do so for the first time is something that someone not familiar with computer software development would find daunting. There are enough step by step guides on line, but your first problem here is to find out what you really need to do.

Where did you get this tablet, and was it represented to you as working with linux? It does appear that support for this is coming in a later kernel.

In the command line window (konsole) I can see that I am running kernel version 3.2.0-23

IE:
uname -ar<cr>
gives:
Linux TetsuwanPenguin 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The tablet came from Amazon. And no, it was not represented as working with Linux; but someone around here said that with a Wacom tablet, it shouldn't be a problem.

I tried getting the latest kernal, but I don't know how to set that up, either.

And what is the point of even downloading the kernal if it doesn't even work without manual installation, a task that is infinitely much too complicated to even try to understand, let alone even bother with?

Sorry for interrupting, but what is this "Wacom Intuos Pro" thingy?

Fancy graphics tablet. Nothing like an iPad, though.

When a stock kernel with the graphics driver is released for Ubuntu it will be simple to install as a package.

Building and manually installing a kernel is not a job for the faint hearted. I have done it in the past, but the kernel building procedure has changed since I last had to install linux that way.

The kernel package will be available as a .deb file.
If we can find out on the forums which kernel package you need, I can give you the commands to install the package. I'm familiar with the debain/ubuntu/linux mint package utilities.