ROOTSYS and linux distribution installation

Honestly speaking, sooner or later, you will learn by hard that the policy of using the “system-provided” ROOT version is a dead end.
You will learn that you need something like three different versions of ROOT - just because something that works with a particular version is not working with another ones.
The safest approach is to “completely remove” all “system-provided” ROOT related packages and install all needed versions of ROOT from scratch, each version in a different “version specific” ROOTSYS subdirectory (e.g. something like “/opt/ROOT/v5-28-00-patches”, “/opt/ROOT/v5-30-00-patches”, “/opt/ROOT/v5-32-00-patches” and so on).