This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-prime - 0.8.3 --------------- nvidia-prime (0.8.3) yakkety; urgency=medium
* debian/control: - Use gdm3 instead of gdm (LP: #1582439). Thanks to Jeremy Bicha for the patch. -- Alberto Milone <alberto.mil...@canonical.com> Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:16:15 +0200 ** Changed in: nvidia-prime (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of नेपाली भाषा समायोजकहरुको समूह, which is subscribed to Xenial. Matching subscriptions: Ubuntu 16.04 Bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582439 Title: nvidia-prime depends upon gdm instead of gdm3 Status in Ubuntu GNOME: Triaged Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-prime source package in Xenial: Triaged Bug description: https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-prime/pull/4 [Impact] - Triaged as High for its impact on Ubuntu GNOME. - Users who install nvidia-prime currently will get lightdm installed, which triggers a nasty debconf prompt asking them to choose whether to use lightdm or gdm3. - However, there is no explanation given about what are the advantages or disadvantages of each choice. (For instance, GNOME Shell does not integrate as well with lightdm; I'm guessing Unity has a similar issue with gdm3). Users may easily not know which one is installed by default on their system or which is recommended in their situation. [Test Case] 1. From Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS, install nividia-prime 2. Is lightdm installed? Are you asked to choose which display manager to use? [Regression Potential] None, this simply adds gdm3 as a supported alternative dependency. [Original Report] Trying to install nvidia-prime on an ubuntu-gnome system tries to pull in a bunch of unity stuff, because it lists as dependencies: Depends: lightdm (>= 1.9.1) | gdm | kdm | sddm, bbswitch-dkms, pciutils, lsb-release, lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7) It should depend on gdm3 in addition, since gdm is a transitional package. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: nvidia-prime (not installed) Uname: Linux 4.5.4-040504-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Mon May 16 19:17:25 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-15 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160421) SourcePackage: nvidia-prime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1582439/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators Post to : group.of.nepali.translators@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~group.of.nepali.translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp