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 ### Install from source
 
  - clone this repo
- - install python3 and pip if needed (following instruction are for apt-based distributives)
+ - install python3 and pip if needed (the following instructions are for apt-based distributions)
    - `sudo apt-get update`
    - `sudo apt-get install python3-pip`
  - `python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`