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@@ -36,18 +36,18 @@ Here are the general instructions to build linphone for desktop. The specific in
 To install the required dependencies on Mac OS X, you can use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/).
 Before you install packages with Brew, you may have to change directories permissions (if you can't change permissions with sudo on a MacOS >= High Sierra, get a look at [this StackOverflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16432071/how-to-fix-homebrew-permissions#46844441)).
 
-1. If you have pip related dependancies, verify to begin with that you already have pip. You can get it for python 2.7 [there](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34886101/how-to-install-pip-to-python-2-7-10-on-mac#34886254).
+1. First ensure you have installed pip. You can get it for python 2.7 [there](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34886101/how-to-install-pip-to-python-2-7-10-on-mac#34886254).
 
-2. Then, you can install a pip package with the following command
+2. Then, you can install a pip package with the following command:
 
         pip install [package]
 
-    For instance, if you don't have pystache and the dot package (contained in graphviz), enter the following commands
+    For instance, if you don't have pystache and the dot package (contained in graphviz), enter the following commands:
 
         pip install pystache
         pip install graphviz
 
-3. Finish the pre-build by cleaning the obsolete files and then run prepare.py and make again
+3. Finish the pre-build by cleaning the obsolete files and then run prepare.py and make again:
 
         ./prepare.py -c
         ./prepare.py -DENABLE_DOC=OFF