utter buffoon failing to install XP Pen driver onto chromebook

[slimeysquirrels]

Hello! I am completely new to Linux. COMPLETELY new. As in, I've been angrily struggling with it for the very first time for the few hours I've had on my laptop.
I'm trying to install the XP Pen software/driver from the official site but I've been wildly unsuccessful in even understanding which flavor of Linux I'm even on. It's between Crouton and Debian, which I know are somehow interconnected (with Debian being the "source" ?? of Crouton/Croutini/whatever it may be.)
My laptop is the "HP Elite C640 G3 Chromebook Plus" with the 1TB docking station and Intel vPRO i5 whatchamacallit (processor).

I don't know how any of this works. If anyone could give me a thorough step-by-step guide on what I should do to get (ANY) XP Pen software + driver up and running, I would be permanently indebted.

I've already tried the latest .Deb file they offer (12/31/25, 15:15 PM) as well as the latest tar.gz (12/31/25, 15:12 PM), and I can provide more details if necessary.

 

[Condobloke]

G'day slimeysquirrels, Welcome to Linux.org

The page I downloaded from is:

Artist Pro 24 (Gen 2) 165Hz|Drivers Download | XPPen

XPPen provides industry-leading drawing tablets, drawing pens with the world's first 16k pressure sensitivity, and related drawing accessories to help you pursue your dreams.

www.xp-pen.com

The are I chose was:

I clicked on download. 24.6 MB

Because it is a .deb file, the rest is easy. RIGHT click on the downloaded file, and at the bottonm of the drop down select Properties.

With properties open...then select Permissions

At the near bottom of Permissions you will see.....

....There is a small square at the tip of the red arrow on the left.....put a tick in the square.

Then click on close (bottom on the right hand side)
and then Double click the app (program) ^^

^^

That gives you the basics.... installing & opening etc etc the tar.gz files is a bit more involved......If you can find what you need in a .deb file, I suggest you stick with them for now.

We really need to nail down which OS you are using

Crouton is end of life .....so in other words no longer supported.

Tell us a bit more about what you installed, where you found its download, and fill out the detail for us.

It is at least half likely you are running Debian. Debian is good news. Tried, trusted, and Reliable.

Maybe if you click on menu, type in system info....that may help

I dont use debian, but the approach should be reasonably similar to Linux Mint

 

[slimeysquirrels]

G'day slimeysquirrels, Welcome to Linux.org

The page I downloaded from is:

Artist Pro 24 (Gen 2) 165Hz|Drivers Download | XPPen

XPPen provides industry-leading drawing tablets, drawing pens with the world's first 16k pressure sensitivity, and related drawing accessories to help you pursue your dreams.

www.xp-pen.com

The are I chose was:
View attachment 31393

I clicked on download. 24.6 MB

Because it is a .deb file, the rest is easy. RIGHT click on the downloaded file, and at the bottonm of the drop down select Properties.

With properties open...then select Permissions

At the near bottom of Permissions you will see.....

View attachment 31394
....There is a small square at the tip of the red arrow on the left.....put a tick in the square.

Then click on close (bottom on the right hand side)
and then Double click the app (program) ^^View attachment 31395^^

That gives you the basics.... installing & opening etc etc the tar.gz files is a bit more involved......If you can find what you need in a .deb file, I suggest you stick with them for now.

We really need to nail down which OS you are using

Crouton is end of life .....so in other words no longer supported.

Tell us a bit more about what you installed, where you found its download, and fill out the detail for us.

It is at least half likely you are running Debian. Debian is good news. Tried, trusted, and Reliable.

Maybe if you click on menu, type in system info....that may help

I dont use debian, but the approach should be reasonably similar to Linux Mint

G'day Condobloke!

I keep getting this weird bug (?) where my .deb files keep appearing as just... empty?

This is what happens whenever I click "Get info" & double clicking just opens a duplicate tab in my folders. I have zero clue how to fix it, apart from maybe factory resetting my laptop and trying again. I think this is the main source of my troubles, because I didn't realize they weren't supposed to be soulless husks taking up all my ram LOL

I use the Artist 13.3 Pro V2, and the same .deb file for that model was only updated last year, so maybe it's just out of date? If that's the case, I'm completely stumped on how to fix that, if I somehow wasn't before.

I don't have anything on this computer anyways, so I'll do the reset and try my luck again. Hasta la Vista, baby!

 

[Condobloke]

Show some care when you reinstall.

The link below shows hot to install Linux Mint. There is very little variation between installing Linux Mint and other distros.
Any Linux distro will run Artist 13.3 pro V2

Linux Mint Installation Guide — Linux Mint Installation Guide documentation

linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io