In the time it took all of us to write our posts, even a moderately computer savvy individual would still not understand. Last time I checked it was considered socially uncool to install an application and then have to consult a forum just to understand how it works.

So... Lets take a look shall we...

Menu -> Download Dictionaries.

Great, you get to visit a website with a long (very long) list of illogically arranged and named files. Pick something that approaches your language of interest and save it to (Where do I save it? It doesn't say?) MyDocs/mstardict as per the link filled with vague instructions that you posted.

Check back in the application, oh, what's this? No dictionary listed. Hmmm. This is where most people would rightfully give up and complain. The savvy user might think "Hmmm, maybe I need to uncompress it?" Lets do that then.

Excellent, tar doesn't understand much of anything - good old busybox.

apt-get install bzip2

bunzip2 <file.tar.bz2>

tar xvf <file.tar>

Back we go to mstardict - great, still no dictionaries. The savvy user would probably be correct to give up at this point and write off mstardict as a useless waste of space.

Hmmm, RTFM is pretty uncool, worse when no help exists. Period.

Back to that thread you posted.

I get to page 5 before it dawns on me that XDXF (the default dictionary download) format does not work and I have to change the pull down menu to stardict. Yay, the one key piece of information missing from pretty much every guide and I have to visit some forum on the net just to dredge it up in the back pages.

So, download again... mstardict has no idea what tar.bz2 is, so it still doesn't work, give up, or savvy user decompress, extract...

Finally the dictionary shows up in the list.

Easy right?

Wrong.

So, thanks for the help, but it wasn't very helpful, it was just a link to a bunch more links and pictures that provide no useful information.