Installing Persepolis download manager (Deb 9)

[white_tee_shirt]

Yea, I know, and they don' mention what DE they have but I think even Gnome has some kind of pretty Icon , that represents applications, and they can clicky click the Icon.....
On a side note, that would help the as well, if they include the DE name in their search key words,...
In any event, it is difficult to figure out which Icon to click these days, on these modern systems. I remember when things were simple and easy.
Any way, if the OP does not understand or like the instruction given here,
there are plenty more available.
Without the Desktop Environment name:
How to use gdebi

I notice there is some youtube videos as well, but did not look at them.

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@warmachine:~$ sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/persepolis_3.0.1.0_all.deb 
[sudo] password for elliot: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: aria2 libc-ares2 libnotify-bin libqt5clucene5 libqt5designer5 libqt5help5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5 libqt5xml5 python3-psutil python3-pyqt5 python3-setproctitle python3-sip 

Download Manager and GUI for aria2
 Persepolis is a Download Manager & a GUI For aria2. It's written in Python.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libc-ares2 amd64 1.12.0-1+deb9u1 [81.6 kB]                                                            
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 aria2 amd64 1.30.0-2 [1208 kB]                                                                        
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libnotify-bin amd64 0.7.7-2 [13.0 kB]                                                                 
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5clucene5 amd64 5.7.1-1 [271 kB]                                                                 
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5xml5 amd64 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 [120 kB]                                                             
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5designer5 amd64 5.7.1-1 [2769 kB]                                                               
Get:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5sql5 amd64 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 [136 kB]                                                             
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5help5 amd64 5.7.1-1 [200 kB]                                                                    
Get:9 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5printsupport5 amd64 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 [198 kB]                                                    
Get:10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5sql5-sqlite amd64 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 [60.8 kB]                                                    
Get:11 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 libqt5test5 amd64 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1 [120 kB]                                                           
Get:12 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 python3-psutil amd64 5.0.1-1 [127 kB]                                                                
Get:13 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 python3-sip amd64 4.18.1+dfsg-2 [88.1 kB]                                                            
Get:14 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 python3-pyqt5 amd64 5.7+dfsg-5 [2224 kB]                                                             
Get:15 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 python3-setproctitle amd64 1.1.10-1 [15.8 kB]                                                        
Fetched 7634 kB in 6s (761 kB/s)                                                                                                                               
dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Error during install: 'installArchives() failed'

[stevepusser]

That error indicates that some other process is using and locked down apt (package management) first. This can be on the command line, Synaptic, or some other software manager like gnome-software. You need to close those down first.

There can be only one.

[debiman]

persepolis is a frontend to aria2, which is in the debian repos.
have you considered:
a) using another frontend that is also in the repos
b) using aria2 directly without the frontend

if this is unacceptable to you (no shiny GUI), you could try cloning the github repo directly:

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git clone https://github.com/persepolisdm/persepolis

being essentially a python script, it shouldn't pose unsurmountable installation problems.
on that page you also find more info.

[stevepusser]

Yes, I use a shiny backported uGet 2.2.0 GUI frontend, which I prefer over Perseopolis.

[white_tee_shirt]

[quote="debiman"]persepolis is a frontend to aria2, which is in the debian repos.
have you considered:
a) using another frontend that is also in the repos
b) using aria2 directly without the frontend

Downloaded adia2. Much happy with it. Thanks for letting me know.