Comment 11 for bug 2027914

The linux-modules-nvidia-535-6.2.0-26-generic appears to have been updated to the nvidia 535.86.05 drivers at 6.2.0-26.26+2 so that dist-upgrade in apt-get no longer tries to deinstall the bulk of the nvidia drivers. However it still shows...

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpkgconf3 libxnvctrl0 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings pkg-config pkgconf
  pkgconf-bin screen-resolution-extra

due to nvidia-driver-535 not being installed. This still is errornously dragging in a dependency on dkms despite the installation of linux-modules-nvidia-535-6.2.0-26-generic and linux-signatures-nvidia-6.2.0-26-generic.

$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-535
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  dkms nvidia-dkms-535 nvidia-kernel-source-535
Suggested packages:
  menu
Recommended packages:
  libnvidia-compute-535:i386 libnvidia-decode-535:i386
  libnvidia-encode-535:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-535:i386 libnvidia-gl-535:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dkms nvidia-dkms-535 nvidia-driver-535 nvidia-kernel-source-535
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 45.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 75.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Can we get this unnecessary dependency on dkms reversed? In previous nvidia releases, the Software & Updates Addditional Drivers panel would allow the installation of the signed nvidia drivers on a secure boot Ubuntu machine without dragging in dkms.