Ok, well I compiled octave2.1.73 from Debian stable (after removing pretty much all of the deps). It's compiled for vfp. No fancy package I'm afraid, just a tarball and even then you need to create a couple more symlinks (from the .so.X -> .so) sorry, I didn't realise Octave was so un-picky about its lib versions.

You'll also need to "apt-get install libg2c0"

I've compiled a reasonably up-to-date gnuplot and stuck it in there too (in .deb format this time). The reason for not having octave in a deb, is that I can't get slice to work in scratchbox, and it's required by the Debian build process for this file. Grrr.

http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/nokia770/software/

Alternatives (in the same dir), which I obviously produced at some point in the past are octave2.9.x (yacas is also in there, and looks like I made it at the same time), no idea if this works (though it probably does). Most likely the deb file is not correctly made, so it may screw up your deps (easily fixed by removing octave or so I remember as and when it happens). Please let me know if it works, if you see why it's breaking things, if it is indeed.

Last option, which suffers from the same dep issues as above, is octave3.0.0 built using OE: http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/nokia770/OE_feed/vfp/

As above, please let me know if it works, if it breaks, how to fix it, etc.

Happy programming