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 ## MFCompress and Lpaq8
 
-We provided a precompiled version of both compressors for Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit, no further action needed beside chmod MFCompressC, MFCompressD, and lpaq8.
+We provided a precompiled version for both compressors for Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit, no further action needed beside chmod MFCompressC, MFCompressD, and lpaq8.
 
 ## Contact