Aaron, nvidia-prime is not supported by SDDM (this is precisely what this bug report is about) so I guess the behavior you get is expected at this point...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-prime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1428328 Title: nvidia-prime needs sddm support Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Kubuntu 15.04 will use sddm as a default login manager. If we try to install nvidia drivers with nvidia-prime, the second will want to install lightdm as it depends of it. Whats more lightdm will want to install a lot of other packages. What we need: nvidia-prime to support sddm 1. #lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 2. #apt-cache policy nvidia-prime nvidia-prime: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.7 Version table: 0.7 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 3. What you expected to happen ? nvidia-prime should work with sddm and do not require lightdm and all its dependencies (unity packges) 4. What happened instead ? nvidia-prime wants to install lightdm as a dependency and a lot of other packages: #sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: adwaita-icon-theme apg avahi-utils bbswitch-dkms cheese-common cups-pk-helper dconf-cli evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server-online-accounts geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gkbd-capplet gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center-shared-data gnome-desktop3-data gnome-menus gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon-schemas gnome-user-guide gnome-user-share gsettings-ubuntu-schemas gstreamer1.0-clutter gvfs-backends humanity-icon-theme hwdata ibus indicator-applet indicator-application indicator-bluetooth indicator-datetime indicator-keyboard indicator-messages indicator-power indicator-session indicator-sound libaccount-plugin-1.0-0 libaccount-plugin-generic-oauth libaccount-plugin-google libaccounts-qt5-1 libappindicator3-1 libcamel-1.2-49 libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango20 libcogl-path20 libcogl20 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libebackend-1.2-7 libebook-1.2-14 libebook-contacts-1.2-0 libecal-1.2-16 libedata-book-1.2-20 libedata-cal-1.2-23 libedataserver-1.2-18 libgdata-common libgdata19 libgee2 libgeocode-glib0 libgnome-bluetooth11 libgnome-desktop-3-10 libgnome-menu-3-0 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-1.0-0b libgoa-1.0-common libgtop2-10 libgtop2-common libgweather-3-6 libgweather-common libido3-0.1-0 libindicator3-7 libinput7 liblightdm-gobject-1-0 libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 liboauth0 libpackagekit-glib2-16 libpanel-applet0 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1 libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt5-1 libtimezonemap-data libtimezonemap1 libunity-control-center1 libunity-settings-daemon1 liburl-dispatcher1 libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwacom2 libxklavier16 libyelp0 lightdm mousetweaks nautilus-data network-manager-gnome python-notify python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat python3-bs4 python3-cairo python3-html5lib python3-lxml python3-smbc python3-xdg session-migration signon-keyring-extension signon-plugin-oauth2 signon-ui signon-ui-service signon-ui-x11 signond system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-mono ubuntu-system-service ubuntu-touch-sounds unity-control-center unity-control-center-signon unity-greeter unity-settings-daemon yelp yelp-xsl Suggested packages: bumblebee evolution evolution-data-server-dbg apache2.2-bin libapache2-mod-dnssd samba-common ibus-clutter ibus-doc click powerd unity-system-compositor unity-greeter-session-broadcast url-dispatcher nautilus network-manager-openconnect-gnome network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc-gnome network-manager-pptp-gnome python3-genshi python3-lxml-dbg python-lxml-doc libcanberra-gtk-module lightdm-remote-session-freerdp lightdm-remote-session-uccsconfigure remote-login-service metacity x-window-manager The following NEW packages will be installed: adwaita-icon-theme apg avahi-utils bbswitch-dkms cheese-common cups-pk-helper dconf-cli evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server-online-accounts geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gkbd-capplet gnome-bluetooth gnome-control-center-shared-data gnome-desktop3-data gnome-menus gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon-schemas gnome-user-guide gnome-user-share gsettings-ubuntu-schemas gstreamer1.0-clutter gvfs-backends humanity-icon-theme hwdata ibus indicator-applet indicator-application indicator-bluetooth indicator-datetime indicator-keyboard indicator-messages indicator-power indicator-session indicator-sound libaccount-plugin-1.0-0 libaccount-plugin-generic-oauth libaccount-plugin-google libaccounts-qt5-1 libappindicator3-1 libcamel-1.2-49 libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcheese-gtk23 libcheese7 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-2.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango20 libcogl-path20 libcogl20 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libebackend-1.2-7 libebook-1.2-14 libebook-contacts-1.2-0 libecal-1.2-16 libedata-book-1.2-20 libedata-cal-1.2-23 libedataserver-1.2-18 libgdata-common libgdata19 libgee2 libgeocode-glib0 libgnome-bluetooth11 libgnome-desktop-3-10 libgnome-menu-3-0 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-1.0-0b libgoa-1.0-common libgtop2-10 libgtop2-common libgweather-3-6 libgweather-common libido3-0.1-0 libindicator3-7 libinput7 liblightdm-gobject-1-0 libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 liboauth0 libpackagekit-glib2-16 libpanel-applet0 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1 libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt5-1 libtimezonemap-data libtimezonemap1 libunity-control-center1 libunity-settings-daemon1 liburl-dispatcher1 libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwacom2 libxklavier16 libyelp0 lightdm mousetweaks nautilus-data network-manager-gnome nvidia-prime python-notify python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat python3-bs4 python3-cairo python3-html5lib python3-lxml python3-smbc python3-xdg session-migration signon-keyring-extension signon-plugin-oauth2 signon-ui signon-ui-service signon-ui-x11 signond system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome ubuntu-mono ubuntu-system-service ubuntu-touch-sounds unity-control-center unity-control-center-signon unity-greeter unity-settings-daemon yelp yelp-xsl 0 upgraded, 143 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 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