diff --git a/Documentation/guides/application-developer.rst b/Documentation/guides/application-developer.rst
index 1b2d7727..c46d3362 100644
--- a/Documentation/guides/application-developer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/guides/application-developer.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Using libcamera in a C++ application
 
 This tutorial shows how to create a C++ application that uses libcamera to
 interface with a camera on a system, capture frames from it for 3 seconds, and
-write metadata about the frames to standard out.
+write metadata about the frames to standard output.
 
 Application skeleton
 --------------------
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 34b6b49f..f94c0880 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ for gstreamer: [optional]
         libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
 
 for cam: [optional]
-        libevent-dev is required to support cam, however the following
+        libevent-dev + pkg-config is required to support cam, however the following
         optional dependencies bring more functionality to the cam test
         tool: