diff --git a/DEVEL/Developer.txt b/DEVEL/Developer.txt
index 37fd69c59..2622ffbd6 100644
--- a/DEVEL/Developer.txt
+++ b/DEVEL/Developer.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ A. If you have never set up git on this machine before:
 	    git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain
 	Linux:
 	    (This will vary by distribution.)
-	    cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credentail/libsecret
+	    cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret
 	    sudo apt-get install libglib-2.0-dev libsecret-1-dev
 	    sudo make
 	    git config --global credential.helper `pwd`/git-credential-libsecret