diff --git a/academic/octave/README b/academic/octave/README
index b2f23bd2ba..006cd2b061 100644
--- a/academic/octave/README
+++ b/academic/octave/README
@@ -7,8 +7,18 @@ also be used as a batch-oriented language.
 These optional dependencies will be used if found:
 * BLAS
 * LAPACK
+* AMD
+* CAMD
+* COLAMD
+* CCOLAMD
+* CHOLMOD
+* UMFPACK
+* CXSparse
 * glpk
+* arpack
+* qrupdate
 * qhull
 * HDF5
-* ftgl
 * fltk
+* ftgl
+* GraphicsMagick
diff --git a/academic/octave/octave.SlackBuild b/academic/octave/octave.SlackBuild
index 32e2bfd11a..2747d1222d 100644
--- a/academic/octave/octave.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/octave/octave.SlackBuild
@@ -6,15 +6,13 @@
 
 PRGNAM="octave"
 VERSION=${VERSION:-3.2.4}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
-# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
     arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
-    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
        *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
   esac
 fi
@@ -51,14 +49,6 @@ cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-st .
 
-# qhull 2010.1 does not install qhull/qhull.h; this file is for "backwards
-# compatibility" and just redirects to qhull/libqhull.h.  Octave tries to
-# use the old header only to compile a test during ./configure.  The test
-# fails because the old header doesn't exist, and as a result Octave won't
-# use qhull.  This line fixes the test, but you may need to comment it out
-# if you intend on using an older version of qhull.
-sed -i 's/qhull\/qhull\.h/qhull\/libqhull\.h/g' configure aclocal.m4
-
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 FFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
@@ -83,16 +73,10 @@ make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
 find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
-( cd $PKG/usr/man
-	find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-	for i in $(find . -type l); do \
-		ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz; \
-		rm $i; \
-	done
-)
+find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 
 rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
-gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*.info*
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a $DOCS $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/academic/octave/octave.info b/academic/octave/octave.info
index ae889c8f4c..ad3d03be0c 100644
--- a/academic/octave/octave.info
+++ b/academic/octave/octave.info
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Kyle Guinn"
 EMAIL="elyk03@gmail.com"
-APPROVED="dsomero"
+APPROVED="Erik Hanson"