Comment 18 for bug 185000

Did you uncomment the autopackage-business in /etc/profile?

Here's how I install the linuxwacom driver so that it works for me:
* I use linuxwacom-0.8.0-3

./configure --enable-wacom
make
sudo make install
# To replace the kernel module with the newly compiled wacom.ko driver
sudo find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name "wacom.ko" | xargs cp src/`ls -rt src | tail -1`wacom.ko

sudo rmmod wacom
sudo modprobe wacom
dmesg | tail # just to check

# then restart X/gdm
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Hope this works for you :)