I notice that you have a new Download manager in 4.8! That is so exciting with one problem for linux. Currently modules are stored in /usr/share/local/bibleanalyzer/modules (something like that!). That is going to be a problem with the download manager as we are going to have to run BA as root, unless what your doing is just have the Download manager launch the .run files, then I suppose we would just have to put our password in quite a few times as we go through module by module.
I probably haven't read through the forums enough to determine the reason for this behavior. But most Linux applications would have installed modules in a ~/.bibleanalyzer/modules folder.
Maybe this should be a consideration for the download manager, or at least create a script so we would only have to run sudo once while installing all the modules without running BA as root/sudo.
Hope these comments help! And God bless you for making the absolute best Linux Bible application!!!