diff --git a/academic/octave/slack-desc b/academic/octave/slack-desc
index 7794ab954e..c941d485d7 100644
--- a/academic/octave/slack-desc
+++ b/academic/octave/slack-desc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
       |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-octave: GNU Octave (Matlab clone)
+octave: octave (Matlab clone)
 octave:
 octave: GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
 octave: computations.  It provides a convenient command line interface for