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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ If you're running a system without prepackaged binary available, which means you
  - [plugin-nvm](https://github.com/derekstavis/plugin-nvm) plugin for [Oh My Fish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish), which makes nvm and its completions available in fish shell
 
 **Note:** We still have some problems with FreeBSD, because there is no official pre-built binary for FreeBSD, and building from source may need [patches](https://www.freshports.org/www/node/files/patch-deps_v8_src_base_platform_platform-posix.cc); see the issue ticket:
- - [[#900] [Bug] nodejs on FreeBSD need to be patched ](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/900)
+ - [[#900] [Bug] nodejs on FreeBSD may need to be patched ](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/900)
  - [nodejs/node#3716](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3716)
 
 **Note:** On OS X, if you do not have Xcode installed and you do not wish to download the ~4.3GB file, you can install the `Command Line Tools`. You can check out this blog post on how to just that: