doc: added missing sudo to installation instructions#5300
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without sudo, permission errors would occur
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| Then you may enable the interpreter by setting the appropriate macro in `*.../include/freetype/config/ftoption.h*` before you build the library (see the README.UNX file on the top level of the freetype distribution). | ||
| To enable the truetype debugger, FontForge needs to have the freetype source directories available when it is built (there are some include files there which it depends on.) | ||
| - libintl Is standard on most unixes. It is part of the fink package on the mac. Handles UI localization. | ||
| To enable the truetype debugger, FontForge needs to have the freetype source directories available when it is built (there are some included files there which it depends on). |
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"include files" is a term of art WRT the C language, so however ungrammatical it sounds the old text was correct in this case.
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@gekkedev, if this really bugs you, you can write with markup #include instead
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sudo, permission errors would occur. I guess a lot of people just ran it all with admin permissions or figured it out on their own. Also corrected some grammar below in the file.Type of change