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 ## The Short Version
 
-Regardless of system, unless you cloned with `--recusrive` you will first
+Regardless of system, unless you cloned with `--recursive` you will first
 have to run `git submodule update --init --recursive`.
 
 You then need the build and runtime dependencies. If you are on a