Hello All,

how can a *user* install additional dictionaries for Thunderbird (SL3) ?

Although the Thunderbird/Extention Manager tells the user that a new 
dict. is installed successfully it is not since there is no write access 
to the myspell directory:

/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.7/components
ls -l | grep myspell
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        35324 Sep 18 13:59 libmyspell.so
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 24 12:25 myspell

As root I changed the permissions of the myspell directory to '1777'. 
Then it works.
However an unfriendly user now could fill up a system partition.

Is there a better way to fix the problem, also transparent for future 
thunderbird version upgrades ?

  Greetings, Thomas.

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