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@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ The following steps needs to be run just once for each arch and distro version.
 
 This is the recommended method:
 
-    sudo mkdir /var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64
+    sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/sid-amd64
     sudo -E cowbuilder --create
 
-    sudo mkdir /var/cache/pbuilder/wheezy-amd64
+    sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/pbuilder/wheezy-amd64
     sudo -E DIST=wheezy cowbuilder --create
 
 ### Setup pbuilder chroots