diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f8a52a9cec..dc2653fa1a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -88,17 +88,19 @@ Running Bro =========== Bro is a complex program and it takes a bit of time to get familiar -with it. In the following we give a few simple examples. See the -quickstart guide at http://www.bro-ids.org for more information; you -can the source that in doc/quick-start. +with it. A good place for newcomers to start is the quick start guide +available here: + + http://www.bro-ids.org/documentation/quickstart.html For developers that wish to run Bro from the the build/ directory after performing "make", but without performing "make install", they will have to first set BROPATH to look for scripts inside the build directory. Sourcing either build/bro-path-dev.sh or build/bro-path-dev.csh -as appropriate for the current shell accomplishes this. e.g.: +as appropriate for the current shell accomplishes this and also augments your +PATH so you can use Bro without qualifying the path to it. e.g.: > ./configure > make > source build/bro-path-dev.sh - > ./build/src/bro + > bro