Chris Leick spot & fix various typos in all manpages

5 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9f5f25d8e..648d7ed3e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ apt (0.7.26) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * French manpage translation update
 
+  [Chris Leick]
+  * spot & fix various typos in all manpages
+
   [ David Kalnischkies ]
   * [BREAK] add possibility to download and use multiply
     Translation files, configurable with Acquire::Translation
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 777630e14..734ae1fe7 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      longer guaranteed to work as their dependency on A is not longer satisfied. The immediate configuration marker
      is also applied to all dependencies which can generate a problem if the dependencies e.g. form a circle
      as a dependency with the immediate flag is comparable with a Pre-Dependency. So in theory it is possible
-     that APT encounters a situation in which it is unable to perform immediate configuration, error out and
-     refers to this option so the user can deactivate the immediate configuration temporary to be able to perform
+     that APT encounters a situation in which it is unable to perform immediate configuration, errors out and
+     refers to this option so the user can deactivate the immediate configuration temporarily to be able to perform
      an install/upgrade again. Note the use of the word "theory" here as this problem was only encountered by now
-     in real world a few times in non-stable distribution versions and caused by wrong dependencies of the package
+     in real world a few times in non-stable distribution versions and was caused by wrong dependencies of the package
      in question or by a system in an already broken state, so you should not blindly disable this option as
      the mentioned scenario above is not the only problem immediate configuration can help to prevent in the first place.
      Before a big operation like <literal>dist-upgrade</literal> is run with this option disabled it should be tried to
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      <varlistentry><term>Languages</term>
      <listitem><para>The Languages subsection controls which <filename>Translation</filename> files are downloaded
      and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first
-     available Description for the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be defined with their
+     available Description in the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be defined with their
      short or long Languagecodes. Note that not all archives provide <filename>Translation</filename>
      files for every Language - especially the long Languagecodes are rare, so please
      inform you which ones are available before you set here impossible values.</para>
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      To force apt to use no Translation file use the setting <literal>Acquire::Languages=none</literal>. "<literal>none</literal>"
      is another special meaning code which will stop the search for a fitting <filename>Translation</filename> file.
      This can be used by the system administrator to let APT know that it should download also this files without
-     actually use them if not the environment specifies this languages. So the following example configuration will
+     actually use them if the environment doesn't specify this languages. So the following example configuration will
      result in the order "en, de" in an english and in "de, en" in a german localization. Note that "fr" is downloaded,
      but not used if APT is not used in a french localization, in such an environment the order would be "fr, de, en".
      <programlisting>Acquire::Languages { "environment"; "de"; "en"; "none"; "fr"; };</programlisting></para></listitem>
diff --git a/doc/guide.sgml b/doc/guide.sgml
index 1b7e1d8f3..ff727f6ca 100644
--- a/doc/guide.sgml
+++ b/doc/guide.sgml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ requires another package to be installed at the same time to work properly.
 
 <p>
 For instance, mailcrypt is an emacs extension that aids in encrypting email
-with GPG. Without GPGP installed mail-crypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a
+with GPG. Without GPGP installed mailcrypt is useless, so mailcrypt has a
 simple dependency on GPG. Also, because it is an emacs extension it has a 
 simple dependency on emacs, without emacs it is completely useless.
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ the <prgn>dselect</> package selection GUI. <prgn>dselect</> is used to
 select the packages to be installed or removed and APT actually installs them.
 
 <p>
-To enable the APT method you need to to select [A]ccess in <prgn>dselect</> 
+To enable the APT method you need to select [A]ccess in <prgn>dselect</> 
 and then choose the APT method. You will be prompted for a set of 
 <em>Sources</> which are places to fetch archives from. These can be remote
 Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CDROMs. Each source can provide
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ prompt until you have specified all that you want.
 
 <p>
 Before starting to use <prgn>dselect</> it is necessary to update the 
-available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a super-set of 
+available list by selecting [U]pdate from the menu. This is a superset of 
 <tt>apt-get update</> that makes the fetched information available to
 <prgn>dselect</>. [U]pdate must be performed even if <tt>apt-get update</>
 has been run before.
diff --git a/doc/offline.sgml b/doc/offline.sgml
index 99e260bc3..e7ede14de 100644
--- a/doc/offline.sgml
+++ b/doc/offline.sgml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ no connection.
 
 <p>
 This is achieved by creatively manipulating the APT configuration file. The
-essential premis to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note
+essential premise to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note
 that the disc should be formated with a filesystem that can handle long file
 names such as ext2, fat32 or vfat.
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ configuration file in <em>/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf</em>.
 <p>
 On the target machine the first thing to do is mount the disc and copy 
 <em>/var/lib/dpkg/status</em> to it. You will also need to create the directories
-outlined in the Overview, <em>archives/partial/</em> and <em>lists/partial/</em>
+outlined in the Overview, <em>archives/partial/</em> and <em>lists/partial/</em>.
 Then take the disc to the remote machine and configure the sources.list. 
 On the remote machine execute the following:
 
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ On the remote machine execute the following:
  [ APT fetches all the packages needed to upgrade the target machine ]
 </example>
 
-The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any-other standard APT commands,
+The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any other standard APT commands,
 particularly dselect-upgrade. You can even use an APT front end such as 
-<em>dselect</em> However this presents a problem in communicating your 
+<em>dselect</em>. However this presents a problem in communicating your 
 selections back to the local computer.
 
 <p>
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index e2993db2c..c71ae6bdd 100644
--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
+++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/
     APT can be extended with more methods shipped in other optional packages which should
     follow the nameing scheme <literal>apt-transport-<replaceable>method</replaceable></literal>.
     The APT team e.g. maintains also the <literal>apt-transport-https</literal> package which
-    provides access methods for https-URIs with features similiar to the http method, but other
+    provides access methods for https-URIs with features similar to the http method, but other
     methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see <citerefentry>
     <refentrytitle><filename>apt-transport-debtorrent</filename></refentrytitle>
     <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.