# PackageKit Bootstrap

PackageKit is the closest cross-distro install prompt for mutable Linux
desktops. Burrow treats it as an optional bootstrap path:

```sh
pkcon install burrow
```

This works only when the host distro has PackageKit, the Burrow native
repository is configured, and polkit authorizes the action. The Flatpak GUI may
offer this path through a narrow `org.freedesktop.PackageKit` permission, but it
must also support direct native-repository instructions.

The command fallback helper checks `apt-get`, `dnf`, `zypper`, `pacman`, `apk`,
`xbps-install`, `eopkg`, `emerge`, `swupd`, and `nix` after PackageKit.