diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 0b2f084e7..8c28101e3 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ sudo swapon /swapfile
 
 
 ```sh
-# install build depedencies
+# install build dependencies
 sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib \
       autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget \
       bsdmainutils automake curl unzip nano libsodium-dev