diff --git a/scientific/octave/octave.conf b/scientific/octave/octave.conf
index 98c42d9c3..6b147ae56 100644
--- a/scientific/octave/octave.conf
+++ b/scientific/octave/octave.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../octave/octave.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 #
@@ -26,3 +26,11 @@ var_append confopt ' ' "--enable-dl"
 export MAKE="$MAKE SED=$SED"
 
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' "-L$root$( pkgprefix libdir libx11 )"
+
+# we do not have SuiteSparse packaged thus we need to disable following
+# http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse/
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-amd"
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-ccolamd"
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-colamd"
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-cxsparse"
+var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--without-umfpack"
diff --git a/scientific/octave/octave.desc b/scientific/octave/octave.desc
index 11bac0d9d..7243a8587 100644
--- a/scientific/octave/octave.desc
+++ b/scientific/octave/octave.desc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 [COPY]
 [COPY] Filename: package/.../octave/octave.desc
-[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2006 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 [COPY] Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
 [COPY]
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Beta
-[V] 3.4.0
+[V] 3.6.1
 [P] O -----5---9 217.000
 
-[D] 4246816591 octave-3.4.0.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
+[D] 1609162584 octave-3.6.1.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/