Haha that's the rabbit hole. Two weeks later you're compiling your own kernel from sources just to be able to get that specific version of libc so that you can get libfoo working so that you can get libbar working so that you can get... You get the idea.

been there, done that, got the tshirt and worthless equity ;)

these days, just spin up some disposable container/vm and tinker...

You can even neatly do it in a docker container that you throw away after if you don't want to mess up anything locally.

I might mess up my computer!!

some people are helpless without their package manager and the maintainers that tell them what software that can run