diff --git a/docs/guides/setup/dpdk-setup-guide.md b/docs/guides/setup/dpdk-setup-guide.md
index 0e6c17db..d2b8a0ce 100644
--- a/docs/guides/setup/dpdk-setup-guide.md
+++ b/docs/guides/setup/dpdk-setup-guide.md
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@ for the DPDK target.
 ## Prerequisites
 
 It is assumed that the DPDK SDE dependencies have been installed on the
-system. The list of SDE's dependencies can be found
+system. The list of dependencies can be found
 in `sde/tools/setup/install_dep.py` file.
 
-Prerequisites and dependencies from stratum-deps are assumed to be
-installed, since some of those dependencies also apply to this
-module, networking-recipe.
+Prerequisites for stratum-deps are assumed to be
+installed. Some of them also apply to networking-recipe.
 
-Install the following dependencies for building networking-recipe.
+Install the following packages for building networking-recipe.
 
 For Fedora:
 
diff --git a/docs/guides/setup/es2k-setup-guide.md b/docs/guides/setup/es2k-setup-guide.md
index 21ecfaa1..0258a2ac 100644
--- a/docs/guides/setup/es2k-setup-guide.md
+++ b/docs/guides/setup/es2k-setup-guide.md
@@ -10,14 +10,13 @@ For the ACC, see [Building for the ES2K ACC](/guides/building-for-es2k-acc).
 ## Prerequisites
 
 It is assumed that the ES2K IPU SDE dependencies have been installed on the
-system. The list of SDE's dependencies can be found
+system. The list of dependencies can be found
 in `sde/tools/setup/install_dep.py` file.
 
-Prerequisites and dependencies from stratum-deps are assumed to be
-installed, since some of those dependencies also apply to this
-module, networking-recipe.
+Prerequisites for stratum-deps are assumed to be
+installed. Some of them also apply to networking-recipe.
 
-Install the following dependencies for building networking-recipe.
+Install the following packages for building networking-recipe.
 
 For Fedora: