possible to install without gdm?

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

Linux hostname 3.0.0-15-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 2 17:44:42 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(Running Xubuntu)

If you run:

sudo apt-get install lightdm

Is gdm a dep of the package (read the package list to be installed)?

sudo apt-get install lightdm
gives no such information since lightdm is already installed on my computer, gdm is not (ie. gdm is not a dep of lightdm, see http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/lightdm for more on that)

EDIT:
sudo apt-get install lightdm
gives no such information since lightdm is already installed on my computer, gdm is not installed on my computer
(ie. gdm is not a dep of lightdm, see http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/lightdm for more on that)

So where is the issue? I think I am blind...

The issue:
I don't want to install gdm if I can avoid it. It seems like xfswitch-plugin should work with lightdm. The question is: is there some way of installing xfswitch-plugine without bringing in gdm?

You may be able to use the --no-depends switch on apt-get and install it..

--no-depends is not a switch on apt-get …

read:

man apt-get

and it will tell you the switches...

*sigh* I've read that twice and googled and find no mention of --no-depends. In the end I downloaded the package from Debian http://packages.debian.org/sid/xfswitch-plugin and did

dpkg --force-depends -i xfswitch-plugin_0.0.1-3_amd64.deb

So, to answer my own question: it does work without installing gdm|gdm3, ie. I can open a bug report.

aaand _now_ I see there's already a bug on that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfswitch-plugin/+bug/896589
Great researcher, me :/

I suggest you report a bug, mixing in Debian debs isn't advised but if it works...