Nix is great for this, if you have the disk space. It's nicest if Nix is already installed on the box by a sysadmin, but you can use it in a pivot_root environm

Nix is great for this, if you have the disk space. It's nicest if Nix is already installed on the box by a sysadmin, but you can use it in a pivot_root environment if you don't have a cooperative sysadmin.