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@asasan: sorry for my missing asasan I had to reinstall ubuntu on my laptop...now I'm here again

well, you've to change owner.group in your file from root to users (group).
Main problem is that you cannot do that in /home...directory because for fat/ntfs filesystem microsoft compatibility, files inside this directory cannot changed.
So, try to copy your file in /usr
command in terminal is
cp your_file /usr
ignore error, it's possible you'll copy this file in /usr despite error log
verify this copy:
cd /usr
ls
if you can see your file here now it's easy:
sudo gainroot (if you haven't this command istall it rootsh from repos)
chown user:users your_file (be careful, don't forget the "s" in 2nd users, it's important )
exit
verify if everithing worked well
ls -l your_file
you'd see
-rw-r--r-... 3 user users ...
well, if "x" missing digit:
chmode +x your_file
check again
ls -l
if everithing is ok now (user users and "x" presents)
mv your_file /home/user/.stardict/dic
that's (should be :P) all


I'm waiting for your news...

Thanks.

I followed the instructions, files are in place with owner user users and -rwxr-xr-x. (do I need w for all three?)

Still, QStardict does not see the dictionary.

Is all this complication due to unzipping in windows and transfer, instead of uncompressing and copy in Linux?

I don't know sorry. I don't use windows
Maybe try again to download a dictionary from another source (and, of course, don't forget to set it in qstardict top menu -> menu/configure -> plugins (set v) -> dictionaries (set v) )

keep me informed

It does get a little complicated around here, what with the cross-talk between OS languages. %^p

Try unzipping with WinRAR or some other authoritative extractor. I have found you can name the folder anything you want. Just keep all the extracted files, and be sure to put the folder that they are in, into the "dic" folder in the main folder you see when you connect your N900 to your computer via the USB cable. That should do it.

It's a lot more heat than light around here, for sure! But that's what we signed up for when we chose to be opensource smartphone pioneers, or didn't you remember!?!?!

[QUOTE=quangmach;450134]just download dictionary file and extract it to any folder on N900,then go to QStarDict -> Config -> Plugins -> stardict press a setting icon then press PLUS to add your dictionaries folder....DONE [/QUOTE



i hve sold the phone months bak.. any way thanks for the post..

It is really not necessary to involve any other computer than the N900 to install dictionaries. I've posted a step-by-step description over here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...112#post558112
The only possible complication from what the qstardict wiki tells you is that bz2 files can't be unzipped by tar on the fly. One has to unzip by "bunzip2" which is provided by the "bzip2" package in nokia-applications. It's just two lines in XTerminal per dictionary what you need.

When using Menu/Configure->Appearance and Fonts I found that I could try out different fonts and font sizes for a while, but when I increased them to 18pt, it stopped being adjustable. Now whatever the setting is, the font is always the same! (EDIT: It's the font for the element "All translation" which no longer changes, the others still do. I can start all over by deleting the configuration file /home/user/.config/qstardict, though.).
With "Popup window appearance" I was actually unsuccessful from the start - I wanted to increase the window of the displayed text, but changing "Default width" never had any effect.

help!!! i tried almost everything on here....and it's not working...i really want to have this on my phone but i can't seem to get it to work...i tried extracting it on my pc and upload but failed...

nvm i got it to work! =] now the next question is does the speaker work?? o.O

For this you just need to install "espeak" from Extras-Testing.