[jabl]

Ideally, yes, but in my experience it's more often due to software management processes being, well, non-existent, and whatever exact version that is 'required' is the version that the original developer used and no attention whatsoever has been given to portability or even testing on other versions.

Luckily containers have become quite popular in the HPC world, to isolate such 'tricky' applications from the host OS.