Building a custom BRO IDS binary package Basically, there are two ways to install BRO. One is, download the source and compile it for your machine. The other option is to install BRO from a package. Compiling from source is a great option, which allows for customization but can become problematic when deploying BRO on several sensors. To address this challenge, compiling BRO on a build machine, and distributing the resulting package to sensor nodes for installation, seems like a good idea.