Flatpak is a relatively new technology which aims at solving those kind of problems. Applications installed with Flatpack come pre-packaged with all their dependencies and run in their own sandboxed environment. In this tutorial we will see how to install and use flatpak on Fedora 28.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-flatpak-to-manage-sandboxed-applications-on-fedora-workstation-28