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 ## Dependencies
 
-While libcosmic is written entirely in Rust, some of its dependencies may require shared system library headers to be installed. On Pop!_OS, the following dependencies are all that's necessary compile a typical COSMIC project:
+While libcosmic is written entirely in Rust, some of its dependencies may require shared system library headers to be installed. On Pop!_OS, the following dependencies are all that's necessary to compile a typical COSMIC project:
 
 ```sh
 sudo apt install cargo cmake just libexpat1-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype-dev libxkbcommon-dev pkgconf