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Originally Posted by turist View Post
How? User can download something in tar.bz as a pure dictionary file, zip folder with set of files or even the full English wikipedia with cache. How can program know all this? I know an application for iPhone that comes with simple dictionaries and is able to download a lot of dictionaries on demand, but that's paid service and those dictionaries cost money and it's not even possible to upload them anywhere without being sued by Babylon or Abbyy. I don't see a problem to download a dictionary and then unpack it to some specific directory, there is even an option to define several directories to these dictionaries.

One solution that I can suggest is to unpack all zip/tar.gz files found in the defined dirs into the same directory with removal of the archive files.
Well, there are a number of free dictionaries, such as the ones listed on sourceforge. I think you can distribute those no problem.

Then a .deb would just need to be made that simply puts those files into /opt/qstardict/dicts (or whatever your default path is).

I think this will happen (eventually) and will make it easier for all users. If it hasn't happened in a month email me to bug me to do it. moe@blagblagblag.org

-Jeff