diff --git a/doc/manual/builddependencies b/doc/manual/builddependencies
index 0cd545b..88f4bb0 100644
--- a/doc/manual/builddependencies
+++ b/doc/manual/builddependencies
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*! \page builddpendencies Generating buiild dependencies automatically
+/*! \page builddependencies Generating build dependencies automatically
 
 As we start updating packages for the next Red Hat distro, I'd like to see
 packages start to make use of build dependencies. Basically build
diff --git a/doc/manual/buildroot b/doc/manual/buildroot
index 77b1596..a369142 100644
--- a/doc/manual/buildroot
+++ b/doc/manual/buildroot
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Simply use
   Buildroot: <dir>
 \endverbatim
 
-in your spec file.  The acutal buildroot used by RPM during the
+in your spec file.  The actual buildroot used by RPM during the
 build will be available to you (and your %prep, %build, and %install
 sections) as the environment variable RPM_BUILD_ROOT.  You must
 make sure that the files for the package are installed into the
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and specified
 
 we would end up with the directory /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl being
 owned by the library package. This directory is in fact used by ALL
-perl libriares and should be owned by the package for perl not any of
+perl libraries and should be owned by the package for perl not any of
 its libraries. It is important that the %files command specifies all
 the known directories explicitly. So this would be preferable:
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ package is removed, RPM will try to remove each of the perl-MD5 files and
 then try to remove the dir itself. If there's still files in the
 site_perl directory (e.g. from other packages) then the Unix rmdir(2)
 will fail and you will get a non-zero return code from RPM. If the
-rmdir succeds then you will no longer have a site_perl directory on
+rmdir succeeds then you will no longer have a site_perl directory on
 your machine even though this directory was created when Perl was
 installed.
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Explicit use of %files can help make the packager aware of potential
 problems before they happen. When you try to install a package which
 contains file names already used by other packages on the system then
 RPM will warn you of the problem and give a fatal error. This error can
-be overriden with --force and the installed file will be replaced by the
+be overridden with --force and the installed file will be replaced by the
 new file and when the new package is removed the file will be removed as well.
 
 */
diff --git a/doc/manual/conditionalbuilds b/doc/manual/conditionalbuilds
index 35ab079..cdff2c4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/conditionalbuilds
+++ b/doc/manual/conditionalbuilds
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*! \page conditionalbulds Passing conditional parameters into a rpm build
+/*! \page conditionalbuilds Passing conditional parameters into a rpm build
 
 Source code is often built with optional features enabled or disabled.
 When source code is packaged using rpm, the various features can be
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ So the spec file should be written
 	%{?_with_ldap}   \
     ...
 \endverbatim
-so that, if "--with ldap" was used as a build option, then confgure
+so that, if "--with ldap" was used as a build option, then configure
 will be invoked (after macro expansion) as
 \verbatim
 	./configure --with-ldap ...
diff --git a/doc/manual/dependencies b/doc/manual/dependencies
index 2623d96..54b7ef5 100644
--- a/doc/manual/dependencies
+++ b/doc/manual/dependencies
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ specifies
 	release=3
 \endverbatim
 
-The epoch (if present) is a monotonically inceasing integer, neither the
+The epoch (if present) is a monotonically increasing integer, neither the
 version or the release can contain the '-' hyphen character, and the dependency
 parser does not permit white space within a definition.  Unspecified epoch
 and releases are assumed to be zero, and are interpreted as "providing all"
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ strcmp(3).  First, the boundaries of the segments are found using
 isdigit(3)/isalpha(3).  Each segment is then compared in order with the
 right most segment being the least significant.  The alphabetical
 portions are compared using a lexical graphical ascii ordering, the
-digit segments strip leading zeroes's and compare the strlen before
+digit segments strip leading zeroes and compare the strlen before
 doing a strcmp. If both numerical strings are equal, the longer string
 is larger.  Notice that the algorithm has no knowledge of decimal fractions,
-and perl-5.6 is "older" than perl-5.00503 because the number 6 si less than
+and perl-5.6 is "older" than perl-5.00503 because the number 6 is less than
 the number 503.
 
 The concept of "newer" used by rpm to determine when a package should be
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ to eliminate the need for most packages to use explicit Requires: lines.
 \subsection dependencies_custom Custom Automatic Dependency
 
 The automatic dependency programs are found via macro expansion.  Thus
-sites can very the amount of dependnecy processing that are performed
+sites can very the amount of dependency processing that are performed
 locally, by changing the executable/script which is run.  Dependency
-processing can even be changed on a per-package basis if the macros's are
+processing can even be changed on a per-package basis if the macros are
 defined in the spec file. To allow for maximum configurability the
 dependency programs are shell scripts which can be duplicated and edited
 for site specific needs.
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ The macros: %__find_provides, %__find_prereq, %__find_requires,
 %__find_conflicts, %__find_obsoletes, if they exist, are expanded to
 the name of a program to exec. For each package, the program receives
 the glob'ed %files manifest on stdin and returns dependencies on stdout. The
-deiscovered dependencies are parsed exactly as if they were found after
+discovered dependencies are parsed exactly as if they were found after
 
 \verbatim
 	Provides:
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ which can be overridden (or even undefined) within a spec file.
 
 Modules for interpreted languages like perl and tcl impose additional
 dependency requirements on packages. A script written for an interpreter
-often requires language specfic modules to be installed in order to execute
-correctly. In order to automatically detect langiage specific modules, each
+often requires language specific modules to be installed in order to execute
+correctly. In order to automatically detect language specific modules, each
 interpreter may have its own find-provides and find-requires. To prevent
 module name collisions between interpreters, module names are enclosed within
-parentheses and a conventional interpreter specific identifier is pre-pended:
+parentheses and a conventional interpreter specific identifier is prepended:
 
 
 \verbatim
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ parentheses and a conventional interpreter specific identifier is pre-pended:
 
 
 The output of a per-interpreter find-requires (notice in this example the
-first requirement is a package and the rest are langague specific modules)
+first requirement is a package and the rest are language specific modules)
 
 \verbatim
 	Mail-Header >= 1.01
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ with appropriate per-interpreter hooks into
 	/usr/lib/rpm/find-{provides,requires}
 \endverbatim
 
-@todo per-interpreter dependency generators are not located in subdiretories.
+@todo per-interpreter dependency generators are not located in subdirectories.
 
 Notice that shell dependencies will require that all %post et al scriptlets
 be processed by the find-requires. Since a shell script depends on all the
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ all, nor generate an error message.
 \subsection dependencies_branching Branching Version
 
 It is quite common to need to branch a set of sources in version
-control. It is not so obvious how those branches should be repesented
+control. It is not so obvious how those branches should be represented
 in the package version numbers. Here is one solution.
 
 You have a bag of features that are injected into a package in a
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Another alternative scheme might be:
 
 \subsection dependencies_build Build dependencies
 
-The following dependencies are availible at build time.  These are
+The following dependencies are available at build time.  These are
 similar to the install time version but these apply only during
 package creation and are specified in the specfile not in the binary
 package.
diff --git a/doc/manual/hregions b/doc/manual/hregions
index 91408b3..1bdb4f1 100644
--- a/doc/manual/hregions
+++ b/doc/manual/hregions
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 The header data structure has changed in rpm-4.0.[12] to preserve the
 original header from a package. The goal is to keep the original
 header intact so that metadata can be verified separately from the
-payload by the RHN up2date client and by the rpm commmand line verify
+payload by the RHN up2date client and by the rpm command line verify
 mode using signatures saved in the rpm database. I believe the change
 is entirely forward and backward compatible, and will not require
 any artifacts like changing the version number of packaging or 
-adding an "rpmlib(...)" tracking dependendency. We'll see ...
+adding an "rpmlib(...)" tracking dependency. We'll see ...
 
 Here's a short description of the change. An rpm header has three sections:
 \verbatim
diff --git a/doc/manual/macros b/doc/manual/macros
index ff6bd34..8f234c2 100644
--- a/doc/manual/macros
+++ b/doc/manual/macros
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ All whitespace surrounding <body> is removed.  Name may be composed
 of alphanumeric characters, and the character `_' and must be at least
 3 characters in length. A macro without an (opts) field is "simple" in that
 only recursive macro expansion is performed. A parameterized macro contains
-an (opts) field. The opts (i.e. string between parantheses) is passed
-exactly as is to getopts(3) for argc/argv processing at the beginning of
+an (opts) field. The opts (i.e. string between parentheses) is passed
+exactly as is to getopt(3) for argc/argv processing at the beginning of
 a macro invocation.  While a parameterized macro is being expanded, the
 following shell-like macros are available:
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ This expands to:
 	(echo -n "My arg is 5" ; sleep 5 ; echo done.)
 \endverbatim
 
-This will cause all occurances of %1 in the macro definition to be
+This will cause all occurrences of %1 in the macro definition to be
 replaced by the first argument to the macro, but only if the macro
 is invoked as "%mymacro 5".  Invoking as "%{mymacro} 5" will not work
 as desired in this case.
diff --git a/doc/manual/queryformat b/doc/manual/queryformat
index 14f2aa3..2f23cbf 100644
--- a/doc/manual/queryformat
+++ b/doc/manual/queryformat
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ to determine which of the releases is considered by rpm to be more fresh.)
 
 \subsection queryformat_example Example: Viewing the Verify Flags
 
-The follwing example query is run against dev becuase I know %verify
+The following example query is run against dev because I know %verify
 is used there.
 \verbatim
 	rpm -q --qf '[%{filenames} %{fileverifyflags}\n]' dev
diff --git a/doc/manual/relocatable b/doc/manual/relocatable
index 6168c1c..f2f5efa 100644
--- a/doc/manual/relocatable
+++ b/doc/manual/relocatable
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ may distribute their software to install in "/opt" but you'd like
 it to install in "/usr/opt".  If the vendor were distributing a
 relocatable RPM package, it would be easy.
 
-\subsection relcateable_building Building a Relocatable Package
+\subsection relocatable_building Building a Relocatable Package
 
 Not all software can be "relocatable".  Before continuing you should
 think about how the program works, what files it accesses, what other
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ into the spec file so that the /usr and /etc directories may be
 relocated separately when this package is installed.
 
 
-\subsection relcateable_installing Installing Relocatable Packages
+\subsection relocatable_installing Installing Relocatable Packages
 
 By default, RPM will install a relocatable package in the prefix
 directory listed in the spec file.  You can override this on the
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ separately by using syntax like:
   rpm ... --relocate /opt=/usr/opt --relocate /etc=/usr/etc ...
 \endverbatim
 
-If any of the Prefixs are not being relocated they can be skipped on
+If any of the Prefixes is not being relocated they can be skipped on
 the command line
 
 */
diff --git a/doc/manual/signatures b/doc/manual/signatures
index 7b4f6dc..9cad9aa 100644
--- a/doc/manual/signatures
+++ b/doc/manual/signatures
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Package signature verification is the same as previous releases:
 	rpm -K <package>
 \endverbatim
 
-RPM will verify evey signature in the package, which may include
+RPM will verify every signature in the package, which may include
 more than one PGP signature.  The output indicates what types of
 signatures are being checked.  If any checks fail you'll see a
 "NOT OK" message, and you should be worried.
diff --git a/doc/manual/spec b/doc/manual/spec
index 2a27e48..286931c 100644
--- a/doc/manual/spec
+++ b/doc/manual/spec
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ A few additions have been made to the spec file format.
 Name
 
 The Name tag contains the proper name of the package. Names must not
-include whitespace and may include a hyphan '-' (unlike version and release
+include whitespace and may include a hyphen '-' (unlike version and release
 tags). Names should not include any numeric operators ('<', '>','=') as
-future versions of rpm may need to reserve charcters other than '-'.
+future versions of rpm may need to reserve characters other than '-'.
 
 By default subpackages are named by prepending `<main package>-' to
 the subpackages name(s). If you wish to change the name of a
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ might be changed to:
 \endverbatim
 
 The description is free form text, but there are two things to note.
-The first regards reformating.  Lines that begin with white space
+The first regards reformatting.  Lines that begin with white space
 are considered "pre-formatted" and will be left alone.  Adjacent
 lines without leading whitespace are considered a single paragraph
 and may be subject to formatting by glint or another RPM tool.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ package contains).
 
 \subsection specfile_buildarchitectures BuildArchitectures: Tag
 
-This tag specifies the arctecture which the resulting binary package
+This tag specifies the architecture which the resulting binary package
 will run on.  Typically this is a CPU architecture like sparc,
 i386. The string 'noarch' is reserved for specifying that the
 resulting binary package is platform independent.  Typical platform
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ script so that false problems are not displayed during package verification.
 	%verify(not size md5 mtime) %{prefix}/bin/javaswarm
 \endverbatim
 
-\subsection specfile_globbing Shell Gobbing of %files Section
+\subsection specfile_globbing Shell Globbing of %files Section
 
 The usual rules for shell globbing apply.  Most special characters can
 be escaped by prefixing them with a '\'.  Spaces are used to separate
-file names and so must be escaped by enclsing the file name with quotes.
+file names and so must be escaped by enclosing the file name with quotes.
 For example:
 
 \verbatim
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ you would add
 \endverbatim
 to your spec file.
 
-If your package was like dump and could not be built w/o a specific vesion of
+If your package was like dump and could not be built w/o a specific version of
 the libraries to access an ext2 file system, you could express this as
 \verbatim
 	BuildRequires: e2fsprofs-devel = 1.17-1
diff --git a/doc/manual/triggers b/doc/manual/triggers
index 6e3ed89..e679a51 100644
--- a/doc/manual/triggers
+++ b/doc/manual/triggers
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Say the package "mymailer" needs an /etc/mymailer/mailer symlink which points
 to the mail transport agent to use. If sendmail is installed, the link should
 point to /usr/bin/sendmail, but it vmail is installed, the link should 
 instead point to /usr/bin/vmail. If both packages are present, we don't care
-where the link points (realisticaly, sendmail and vmail should conflict
+where the link points (realistically, sendmail and vmail should conflict
 with one another), while if neither package is installed the link should
 not exist at all.