It may be that Octave just works now as Thomas Tanner fixed my (slightly broken) fort77. Please do try as i don't seem to be able to reinstall libblas3gf and liblapack3gf which were the packages that Octave was incorrectly (so rather than so.X) linked against.

I've uploaded QtOctave, but it needs some serious UI work as it's nigh on unusable atm. If anyone has the time and motivation please feel free to do some hacking there (or go for something else if you fancy)