diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-env.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-env.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8eb70c6289457
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-env.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+{ stdenv, octave, buildEnv
+, makeWrapper, texinfo
+, octavePackages
+, wrapOctave
+, computeRequiredOctavePackages
+, extraLibs ? []
+, extraOutputsToInstall ? []
+, postBuild ? ""
+, ignoreCollisions ? false
+}:
+
+# Create an octave executable that knows about additional packages
+let
+  packages = computeRequiredOctavePackages extraLibs;
+
+in buildEnv {
+  name = "${octave.name}-env";
+  paths = extraLibs ++ [ octave ];
+
+  inherit ignoreCollisions;
+  extraOutputsToInstall = [ "out" ] ++ extraOutputsToInstall;
+
+  buildInputs = [ makeWrapper texinfo wrapOctave ];
+
+  # During "build" we must first unlink the /share symlink to octave's /share
+  # Then, we can re-symlink the all of octave/share, except for /share/octave
+  # in env/share/octave, re-symlink everything from octave/share/octave and then
+  # perform the pkg install.
+  postBuild = ''
+      . "${makeWrapper}/nix-support/setup-hook"
+      # The `makeWrapper` used here is the one defined in
+      # ${makeWrapper}/nix-support/setup-hook
+
+      if [ -L "$out/bin" ]; then
+         unlink $out/bin
+         mkdir -p "$out/bin"
+         cd "${octave}/bin"
+         for prg in *; do
+             if [ -x $prg ]; then
+                makeWrapper "${octave}/bin/$prg" "$out/bin/$prg" --set OCTAVE_SITE_INITFILE "$out/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc"
+             fi
+         done
+         cd $out
+      fi
+
+      # Remove symlinks to the input tarballs, they aren't needed.
+      rm $out/*.tar.gz
+
+      createOctavePackagesPath $out ${octave}
+
+      for path in ${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " packages}; do
+          if [ -e $path/*.tar.gz ]; then
+             $out/bin/octave-cli --eval "pkg local_list $out/.octave_packages; \
+                                         pkg prefix $out/${octave.octPkgsPath} $out/${octave.octPkgsPath}; \
+                                         pfx = pkg (\"prefix\"); \
+                                         pkg install -nodeps -local $path/*.tar.gz"
+          fi
+      done
+
+      # Re-write the octave-wide startup file (share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc)
+      # To point to the new local_list in $out
+      addPkgLocalList $out ${octave}
+
+      wrapOctavePrograms "${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " packages}"
+     '' + postBuild;
+
+  inherit (octave) meta;
+
+  passthru = octave.passthru // {
+    interpreter = "$out/bin/octave";
+    inherit octave;
+    env = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+      name = "interactive-${octave.name}-environment";
+
+      buildCommand = ''
+        echo >&2 ""
+        echo >&2 "*** octave 'env' attributes are intended for interactive nix-shell sessions, not for building! ***"
+        echo >&2 ""
+        exit 1
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-octave-package.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-octave-package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..73a67769d6a6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/build-octave-package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+# Generic builder for GNU Octave libraries.
+# This is a file that contains nested functions. The first, outer, function
+# is the library- and package-wide details, such as the nixpkgs library, any
+# additional configuration provided, and the namePrefix to use (based on the
+# pname and version of Octave), the octave package, etc.
+
+{ lib
+, stdenv
+, config
+, octave
+, texinfo
+, computeRequiredOctavePackages
+, writeRequiredOctavePackagesHook
+}:
+
+# The inner function contains information required to build the individual
+# libraries.
+{ fullLibName ? "${attrs.pname}-${attrs.version}"
+
+, src
+
+, dontPatch ? false
+, patches ? []
+, patchPhase ? ""
+
+, enableParallelBuilding ? true
+# Build-time dependencies for the package, which were compiled for the system compiling this.
+, nativeBuildInputs ? []
+
+# Build-time dependencies for the package, which may not have been compiled for the system compiling this.
+, buildInputs ? []
+
+# Propagate build dependencies so in case we have A -> B -> C,
+# C can import package A propagated by B
+# Run-time dependencies for the package.
+, propagatedBuildInputs ? []
+
+# Octave packages that are required at runtime for this one.
+# These behave similarly to propagatedBuildInputs, where if
+# package A is needed by B, and C needs B, then C also requires A.
+# The main difference between these and propagatedBuildInputs is
+# during the package's installation into octave, where all
+# requiredOctavePackages are ALSO installed into octave.
+, requiredOctavePackages ? []
+
+, preBuild ? ""
+
+, meta ? {}
+
+, passthru ? {}
+
+, ... } @ attrs:
+
+let
+  requiredOctavePackages' = computeRequiredOctavePackages requiredOctavePackages;
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  packageName = "${fullLibName}";
+  # The name of the octave package ends up being
+  # "octave-version-package-version"
+  name = "${octave.pname}-${octave.version}-${fullLibName}";
+
+  # This states that any package built with the function that this returns
+  # will be an octave package. This is used for ensuring other octave
+  # packages are installed into octave during the environment building phase.
+  isOctavePackage = true;
+
+  OCTAVE_HISTFILE = "/dev/null";
+
+  inherit src;
+
+  inherit dontPatch patches patchPhase;
+
+  dontConfigure = true;
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = enableParallelBuilding;
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = requiredOctavePackages';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    octave
+    writeRequiredOctavePackagesHook
+  ]
+  ++ nativeBuildInputs;
+
+  buildInputs = buildInputs ++ requiredOctavePackages';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ texinfo ];
+
+  preBuild = if preBuild == "" then
+    ''
+      # This trickery is needed because Octave expects a single directory inside
+      # at the top-most level of the tarball.
+      tar --transform 's,^,${fullLibName}/,' -cz * -f ${fullLibName}.tar.gz
+    ''
+             else
+               preBuild;
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    runHook preBuild
+
+    mkdir -p $out
+    octave-cli --eval "pkg build $out ${fullLibName}.tar.gz"
+
+    runHook postBuild
+  '';
+
+  # We don't install here, because that's handled when we build the environment
+  # together with Octave.
+  dontInstall = true;
+
+  inherit meta;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
index 72f3dd552de6d..0a87c1ddcf07f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv
+, pkgs
 , lib
 # Note: either stdenv.mkDerivation or, for octaveFull, the qt-5 mkDerivation
 # with wrapQtAppsHook (comes from libsForQt5.callPackage)
@@ -45,6 +46,11 @@
 , python ? null
 , overridePlatforms ? null
 , sundials ? null
+# - Packages required for building extra packages.
+, newScope
+, callPackage
+, makeSetupHook
+, makeWrapper
 # - Build Octave Qt GUI:
 , enableQt ? false
 , qtbase ? null
@@ -60,6 +66,7 @@
 }:
 
 let
+
   # Not always evaluated
   blas' = if use64BitIdx then
     blas.override {
@@ -94,118 +101,144 @@ let
   else
     null
   ;
-in mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "6.2.0";
-  pname = "octave";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://gnu/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "sha256-RX0f2oY0qDni/Xz8VbmL1W82tq5z0xu530Pd4wEsqnw=";
+  octavePackages = import ../../../top-level/octave-packages.nix {
+    inherit pkgs;
+    inherit lib stdenv fetchurl newScope;
+    octave = self;
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [
-    readline
-    ncurses
-    perl
-    flex
-    qhull
-    graphicsmagick
-    pcre
-    fltk
-    zlib
-    curl
-    blas'
-    lapack'
-    libsndfile
-    fftw
-    fftwSinglePrec
-    portaudio
-    qrupdate'
-    arpack'
-    libwebp
-    gl2ps
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals enableQt [
-    qtbase
-    qtsvg
-    qscintilla
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (ghostscript != null) [ ghostscript ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (hdf5 != null) [ hdf5 ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (glpk != null) [ glpk ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (suitesparse != null) [ suitesparse' ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (enableJava) [ jdk ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (sundials != null) [ sundials ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (gnuplot != null) [ gnuplot ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (python != null) [ python ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (!stdenv.isDarwin) [ libGL libGLU libX11 ]
-  ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
-    libiconv
-    darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Accelerate
-    darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Cocoa
-  ]
-  ;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    pkg-config
-    gfortran
-    # Listed here as well because it's outputs are split
-    fftw
-    fftwSinglePrec
-    texinfo
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (sundials != null) [ sundials ]
-  ++ lib.optionals enableJIT [ llvm ]
-  ++ lib.optionals enableQt [
-    qtscript
-    qttools
-  ]
-  ;
+  wrapOctave = callPackage ./wrap-octave.nix {
+    octave = self;
+    inherit (pkgs) makeSetupHook makeWrapper;
+  };
+
+  self = mkDerivation rec {
+    version = "6.2.0";
+    pname = "octave";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://gnu/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "sha256-RX0f2oY0qDni/Xz8VbmL1W82tq5z0xu530Pd4wEsqnw=";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [
+      readline
+      ncurses
+      perl
+      flex
+      qhull
+      graphicsmagick
+      pcre
+      fltk
+      zlib
+      curl
+      blas'
+      lapack'
+      libsndfile
+      fftw
+      fftwSinglePrec
+      portaudio
+      qrupdate'
+      arpack'
+      libwebp
+      gl2ps
+    ]
+    ++ lib.optionals enableQt [
+      qtbase
+      qtsvg
+      qscintilla
+    ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (ghostscript != null) [ ghostscript ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (hdf5 != null) [ hdf5 ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (glpk != null) [ glpk ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (suitesparse != null) [ suitesparse' ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (enableJava) [ jdk ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (sundials != null) [ sundials ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (gnuplot != null) [ gnuplot ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (python != null) [ python ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (!stdenv.isDarwin) [ libGL libGLU libX11 ]
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
+      libiconv
+      darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Accelerate
+      darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Cocoa
+    ]
+    ;
+    nativeBuildInputs = [
+      pkg-config
+      gfortran
+      # Listed here as well because it's outputs are split
+      fftw
+      fftwSinglePrec
+      texinfo
+    ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (sundials != null) [ sundials ]
+    ++ lib.optionals enableJIT [ llvm ]
+    ++ lib.optionals enableQt [
+      qtscript
+      qttools
+    ]
+    ;
 
-  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
+    doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+    enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  # See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50339
-  F77_INTEGER_8_FLAG = if use64BitIdx then "-fdefault-integer-8" else "";
+    # See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50339
+    F77_INTEGER_8_FLAG = if use64BitIdx then "-fdefault-integer-8" else "";
 
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-blas=blas"
-    "--with-lapack=lapack"
-    (if use64BitIdx then "--enable-64" else "--disable-64")
-  ]
+    configureFlags = [
+      "--with-blas=blas"
+      "--with-lapack=lapack"
+      (if use64BitIdx then "--enable-64" else "--disable-64")
+    ]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ "--enable-link-all-dependencies" ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableReadline [ "--enable-readline" ]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ "--with-x=no" ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableQt [ "--with-qt=5" ]
     ++ lib.optionals enableJIT [ "--enable-jit" ]
-  ;
+    ;
 
-  # Keep a copy of the octave tests detailed results in the output
-  # derivation, because someone may care
-  postInstall = ''
-    cp test/fntests.log $out/share/octave/${pname}-${version}-fntests.log || true
-  '';
+    # Keep a copy of the octave tests detailed results in the output
+    # derivation, because someone may care
+    postInstall = ''
+      cp test/fntests.log $out/share/octave/${pname}-${version}-fntests.log || true
+    '';
 
-  passthru = {
-    sitePath = "share/octave/${version}/site";
-    blas = blas';
-    lapack = lapack';
-    qrupdate = qrupdate';
-    arpack = arpack';
-    suitesparse = suitesparse';
-    inherit python;
-    inherit enableQt enableJIT enableReadline enableJava;
-  };
+    passthru = rec {
+      sitePath = "share/octave/${version}/site";
+      octPkgsPath = "share/octave/octave_packages";
+      blas = blas';
+      lapack = lapack';
+      qrupdate = qrupdate';
+      arpack = arpack';
+      suitesparse = suitesparse';
+      inherit fftw fftwSinglePrec;
+      inherit portaudio;
+      inherit jdk;
+      inherit python;
+      inherit enableQt enableJIT enableReadline enableJava;
+      buildEnv = callPackage ./build-env.nix {
+        octave = self;
+        inherit octavePackages wrapOctave;
+        inherit (octavePackages) computeRequiredOctavePackages;
+      };
+      withPackages = import ./with-packages.nix { inherit buildEnv octavePackages; };
+      pkgs = octavePackages;
+      interpreter = "${self}/bin/octave";
+    };
 
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin doronbehar ];
-    description = "Scientific Pragramming Language";
-    # https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=56425 is the best attempt to fix JIT
-    broken = enableJIT;
-    platforms = if overridePlatforms == null then
-      (lib.platforms.linux ++ lib.platforms.darwin)
-    else overridePlatforms;
+    meta = {
+      homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/";
+      license = lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+      maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin doronbehar ];
+      description = "Scientific Pragramming Language";
+      # https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=56425 is the best attempt to fix JIT
+      broken = enableJIT;
+      platforms = if overridePlatforms == null then
+        (lib.platforms.linux ++ lib.platforms.darwin)
+      else overridePlatforms;
+    };
   };
-}
+
+in self
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f47560921af3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Hooks for building Octave packages.
+{ octave
+, lib
+, callPackage
+, makeSetupHook
+}:
+
+rec {
+  writeRequiredOctavePackagesHook = callPackage ({ }:
+    makeSetupHook {
+      name = "write-required-octave-packages-hook";
+    } ./write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh) {};
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/octave-write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/octave-write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..64e87d68246f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/octave-write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Setup hook for writing octave packages that are run-time dependencies for
+# another package to a nix-support file.
+# `echo`s the full path name to the package derivation that is required.
+echo "Sourcing octave-write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh"
+
+octaveWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase() {
+    echo "Executing octaveWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+
+    mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+    echo ${requiredOctavePackages} > $out/nix-support/required-octave-packages
+}
+
+# Yes its a bit long...
+if [ -z "${dontWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase-}" ]; then
+    echo "Using octaveWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+    preDistPhases+=" octaveWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..032ea398ac568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/hooks/write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Setup hook for writing octave packages that are run-time dependencies for
+# another package to a nix-support file.
+# `echo`s the full path name to the package derivation that is required.
+echo "Sourcing write-required-octave-packages-hook.sh"
+
+writeRequiredOctavePackagesPhase() {
+    echo "Executing writeRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+
+    mkdir -p $out/nix-support
+    echo ${requiredOctavePackages} > $out/nix-support/required-octave-packages
+}
+
+# Yes its a bit long...
+if [ -z "${dontWriteRequiredOctavePackagesPhase-}" ]; then
+    echo "Using writeRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+    preDistPhases+=" writeRequiredOctavePackagesPhase"
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/with-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/with-packages.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f00befbb00d45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/with-packages.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{ buildEnv, octavePackages }:
+
+# Takes the buildEnv defined for Octave and the set of octavePackages, and returns
+# a function, which when given a function whose return value is a list of extra
+# packages to install, builds and returns that environment.
+f: let packages = f octavePackages; in buildEnv.override { extraLibs = packages; }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap-octave.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap-octave.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1e4616136a1b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap-octave.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ lib
+, octave
+, makeSetupHook
+, makeWrapper
+}:
+
+# Defined in trivial-builders.nix
+# Imported as wrapOctave in octave/default.nix and passed to octave's buildEnv
+# as nativeBuildInput
+# Each of the substitutions is available in the wrap.sh script as @thingSubstituted@
+makeSetupHook {
+  name = "${octave.name}-pkgs-setup-hook";
+  deps = makeWrapper;
+  substitutions.executable = octave.interpreter;
+  substitutions.octave = octave;
+} ./wrap.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a5969fca2a96e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/octave/wrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+# Unlinks a directory (given as the first argument), and re-creates that
+# directory as an actual directory. Then descends into the directory of
+# the same name in the origin (arg_2/arg_3) and symlinks the contents of
+# that directory into the passed end-location.
+unlinkDirReSymlinkContents() {
+    local dirToUnlink="$1"
+    local origin="$2"
+    local contentsLocation="$3"
+
+    unlink $dirToUnlink/$contentsLocation
+    mkdir -p $dirToUnlink/$contentsLocation
+    for f in $origin/$contentsLocation/*; do
+        ln -s -t "$dirToUnlink/$contentsLocation" "$f"
+    done
+}
+
+# Using unlinkDirReSymlinkContents, un-symlinks directories down to
+# $out/share/octave, and then creates the octave_packages directory.
+createOctavePackagesPath() {
+    local desiredOut=$1
+    local origin=$2
+
+    if [ -L "$out/share" ]; then
+        unlinkDirReSymlinkContents "$desiredOut" "$origin" "share"
+    fi
+
+    if [ -L "$out/share/octave" ]; then
+        unlinkDirReSymlinkContents "$desiredOut" "$origin" "share/octave"
+    fi
+
+    # Now that octave_packages has a path rather than symlinks, create the
+    # octave_packages directory for installed packages.
+    mkdir -p "$desiredOut/share/octave/octave_packages"
+}
+
+# First, descends down to $out/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc, and
+# copies that start-up file. Once done, it performs a `chmod` to allow
+# writing. Lastly, it `echo`s the location of the locally installed packages
+# to the startup file, allowing octave to discover installed packages.
+addPkgLocalList() {
+    local desiredOut=$1
+    local origin=$2
+    local octaveSite="share/octave/site"
+    local octaveSiteM="$octaveSite/m"
+    local octaveSiteStartup="$octaveSiteM/startup"
+    local siteOctavercStartup="$octaveSiteStartup/octaverc"
+
+    unlinkDirReSymlinkContents "$desiredOut" "$origin" "$octaveSite"
+    unlinkDirReSymlinkContents "$desiredOut" "$origin" "$octaveSiteM"
+    unlinkDirReSymlinkContents "$desiredOut" "$origin" "$octaveSiteStartup"
+
+    unlink "$out/$siteOctavercStartup"
+    cp "$origin/$siteOctavercStartup" "$desiredOut/$siteOctavercStartup"
+    chmod u+w "$desiredOut/$siteOctavercStartup"
+    echo "pkg local_list $out/.octave_packages" >> "$desiredOut/$siteOctavercStartup"
+}
+
+# Wrapper function for wrapOctaveProgramsIn. Takes one argument, a
+# space-delimited string of packages' paths that will be installed.
+wrapOctavePrograms() {
+    wrapOctaveProgramsIn "$out/bin" "$out" "$@"
+}
+
+# Wraps all octave programs in $out/bin with all the propagated inputs that
+# a particular package requires. $1 is the directory to look for binaries in
+# to wrap. $2 is the path to the octave ENVIRONMENT. $3 is the space-delimited
+# string of packages.
+wrapOctaveProgramsIn() {
+    local dir="$1"
+    local octavePath="$2"
+    local pkgs="$3"
+    local f
+
+    buildOctavePath "$octavePath" "$pkgs"
+
+    # Find all regular files in the output directory that are executable.
+    if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
+        find "$dir" -type f -perm -0100 -print0 | while read -d "" f; do
+            echo "wrapping \`$f'..."
+            local -a wrap_args=("$f"
+                --prefix PATH ':' "$program_PATH"
+                   )
+            local -a wrapProgramArgs=("${wrap_args[@]}")
+            wrapProgram "${wrapProgramArgs[@]}"
+    done
+    fi
+}
+
+# Build the PATH environment variable by walking through the closure of
+# dependencies. Starts by constructing the `program_PATH` variable with the
+# environment's path, then adding the original octave's location, and marking
+# them in `octavePathsSeen`.
+buildOctavePath() {
+    local octavePath="$1"
+    local packages="$2"
+
+    local pathsToSearch="$octavePath $packages"
+
+    # Create an empty table of Octave paths.
+    declare -A octavePathsSeen=()
+    program_PATH=
+    octavePathsSeen["$out"]=1
+    octavePathsSeen["@octave@"]=1
+    addToSearchPath program_PATH "$out/bin"
+    addToSearchPath program_PATH "@octave@/bin"
+    echo "program_PATH to change to is: $program_PATH"
+    for path in $pathsToSearch; do
+    echo "Recurse to propagated-build-input: $path"
+    _addToOctavePath $path
+    done
+}
+
+# Adds the bin directories to the program_PATH variable.
+# Recurses on any paths declared in `propagated-build-inputs`, while avoiding
+# duplicating paths by flagging the directires it has seen in `octavePathsSeen`.
+_addToOctavePath() {
+    local dir="$1"
+    # Stop if we've already visited this path.
+    if [ -n "${octavePathsSeen[$dir]}" ]; then return; fi
+    octavePathsSeen[$dir]=1
+    # addToSearchPath is defined in stdenv/generic/setup.sh. It has the effect
+    # of calling `export X=$dir/...:$X`.
+    addToSearchPath program_PATH $dir/bin
+
+    # Inspect the propagated inputs (if they exist) and recur on them.
+    local prop="$dir/nix-support/propagated-build-inputs"
+    if [ -e $prop ]; then
+    for new_path in $(cat $prop); do
+        _addToOctavePath $new_path
+    done
+    fi
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/arduino/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/arduino/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f6536108e6cc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/arduino/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, instrument-control
+, arduino
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "arduino";
+  version = "0.6.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0fnfk206n31s7diijaylmqhxnr88z6l3l3vsxq4z8gcp9ylm9nkj";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    instrument-control
+  ];
+
+  # Might be able to use pkgs.arduino-core
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    arduino
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    name = "Octave Arduino Toolkit";
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/arduino/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Basic Octave implementation of the matlab arduino extension, allowing communication to a programmed arduino board to control its hardware";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4fafefd6f75de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/audio/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, jack2
+, alsaLib
+, rtmidi
+, pkg-config
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "audio";
+  version = "2.0.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "18lyvwmdy4b9pcv5sm7g17n3is32q23daw8fcsalkf4rj6cc6qdk";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    jack2
+    alsaLib
+    rtmidi
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/audio/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Audio and MIDI Toolbox for GNU Octave";
+    platforms = platforms.linux; # Because of run-time dependency on jack2 and alsaLib
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bim/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bim/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5dc8ca88710d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bim/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, fpl
+, msh
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "bim";
+  version = "1.1.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0y70w8mj80c5yns1j7nwngwwrxp1pa87kyz2n2yvmc3zdigcd6g8";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    fpl
+    msh
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/bim/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Package for solving Diffusion Advection Reaction (DAR) Partial Differential Equations";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bsltl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bsltl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..aefe543b097d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/bsltl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "bsltl";
+  version = "1.3.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0i8ry347y5f5db3702nhpsmfys9v18ks2fsmpdqpy3fcvrwaxdsb";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/bsltl/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Free collection of OCTAVE/MATLAB routines for working with the biospeckle laser technique";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/cgi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/cgi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4686881251afa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/cgi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "cgi";
+  version = "0.1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0hygj7cpwrs2w9bfb7qrvv7gq410bfiddqvza8smg766pqmfp1s1";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/cgi/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Common Gateway Interface for Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/communications/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/communications/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..492c837255f78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/communications/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, signal
+, hdf5
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "communications";
+  version = "1.2.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1xay2vjyadv3ja8dmqqzm2his8s0rvidz23nq1c2yl3xh1gavyck";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    hdf5
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    signal
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/communications/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = " Digital Communications, Error Correcting Codes (Channel Code), Source Code functions, Modulation and Galois Fields";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/control/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/control/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2d61e30cc60cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/control/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, gfortran
+, lapack, blas
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "control";
+  version = "3.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0gjyjsxs01x0nyc4cgn3d5af17l3lzs8h4hsm57nxd3as48dbwgs";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gfortran
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    lapack blas
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/control/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD) Tools for GNU Octave, based on the proven SLICOT Library";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/data-smoothing/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/data-smoothing/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..551582a77703e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/data-smoothing/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, optim
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "data-smoothing";
+  version = "1.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0q0vqdmp8ygyfhk296xbxcpsh5wvpa2kfgv4v0rys68nd2lxfaq1";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    optim
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/data-smoothing/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Algorithms for smoothing noisy data";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/database/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/database/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3e1fe863276cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/database/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, struct
+, postgresql
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "database";
+  version = "2.4.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1c0n76adi0jw6bx62s04vjyda6kb6ca8lzz2vam43vdy10prcq9p";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    postgresql
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    struct
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/database/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Interface to SQL databases, currently only postgresql using libpq";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dataframe/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dataframe/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8f145f0d510c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dataframe/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "dataframe";
+  version = "1.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "10ara084gkb7d5vxv9qv7zpj8b4mm5y06nccrdy3skw5nfbb4djx";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/dataframe/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Data manipulation toolbox similar to R data.frame";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dicom/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dicom/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e16b6447805ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/dicom/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, gdcm
+, cmake
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "dicom";
+  version = "0.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "131wn6mrv20np10plirvqia8dlpz3g0aqi3mmn2wyl7r95p3dnza";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+  ];
+
+  dontUseCmakeConfigure = true;
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    gdcm
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/dicom/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Digital communications in medicine (DICOM) file io";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/divand/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/divand/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ac8de9060680a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/divand/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "divand";
+  version = "1.1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0nmaz5j37dflz7p4a4lmwzkh7g1gghdh7ccvkbyy0fpgv9lr1amg";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/divand/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Performs an n-dimensional variational analysis (interpolation) of arbitrarily located observations";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/doctest/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/doctest/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3c02a20cdad15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/doctest/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "doctest";
+  version = "0.7.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0hh9izj9ds69bmrvmmj16fd1c4z7733h50c7isl8f714srw26kf4";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/doctest/index.html";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Find and run example code within documentation";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Find and run example code within documentation. Formatted blocks
+      of example code are extracted from documentation files and executed
+      to confirm their output is correct. This can be part of a testing
+      framework or simply to ensure that documentation stays up-to-date
+      during software development.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/econometrics/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/econometrics/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0aa795959ab6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/econometrics/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, optim
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "econometrics";
+  version = "1.1.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1srx78k90ycla7yisa9h593n9l8br31lsdxlspra8sxiyq0sbk72";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    optim
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/econometrics/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Econometrics functions including MLE and GMM based techniques";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fem-fenics/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fem-fenics/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..300dfd758774e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fem-fenics/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, dolfin
+, ffc
+, pkg-config
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "fem-fenics";
+  version = "0.0.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1xd80nnkschldvrqx0wvrg3fzbf8sck8bvq24phr5x49xs7b8x78";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    dolfin
+    ffc
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/fem-fenics/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Package for the resolution of partial differential equations based on fenics";
+    # Lots of compilation errors for newer octave versions and syntax errors
+    broken = true;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/financial/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/financial/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5fb6a00df78b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/financial/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, io
+, statistics
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "financial";
+  version = "0.5.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0f963yg6pwvrdk5fg7b71ny47gzy48nqxdzj2ngcfrvmb5az4vmf";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/financial/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Monte Carlo simulation, options pricing routines, financial manipulation, plotting functions and additional date manipulation tools";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fits/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fits/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9d236cb9f1fa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fits/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, cfitsio
+, hdf5
+, pkg-config
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "fits";
+  version = "1.0.7";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0jab5wmrpifqphmrfkqcyrlpc0h4y4m735yc3avqqjajz1rl24lm";
+  };
+
+  # Found here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/science/octave-forge-fits/octave-forge-fits.spec?expand=1
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i -s -e 's/D_NINT/octave::math::x_nint/g' src/*.cc
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    hdf5
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    cfitsio
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/fits/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Functions for reading, and writing FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) files using cfitsio";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fpl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fpl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e5b276c0c20de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fpl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "fpl";
+  version = "1.3.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0cbpahn9flrv9ppp5xakhwh8vyyy7wzlsz22i3s93yqg9q2bh4ys";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/fpl/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Collection of routines to export data produced by Finite Elements or Finite Volume Simulations in formats used by some visualization programs";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fuzzy-logic-toolkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fuzzy-logic-toolkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5cb567b2bb85d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/fuzzy-logic-toolkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "fuzzy-logic-toolkit";
+  version = "0.4.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0cs1xh594h1psdinicxrsvm27gzax5jja7bjk4sl3kk2hv24mhml";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/fuzzy-logic-toolkit/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "A mostly MATLAB-compatible fuzzy logic toolkit for Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ga/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ga/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a5265a4ce4505
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ga/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "ga";
+  version = "0.10.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0s5azn4n174avlmh5gw21zfqfkyxkzn4v09q4l9swv7ldmg3mirv";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/ga/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Genetic optimization code";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/general/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/general/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..52ad9af93b0f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/general/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, pkg-config
+, nettle
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "general";
+  version = "2.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0jmvczssqz1aa665v9h8k9cchb7mg3n9af6b5kh9b2qcjl4r9l7v";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    nettle
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/general/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "General tools for Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/generate_html/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/generate_html/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..83f3a65bedc23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/generate_html/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "generate_html";
+  version = "0.3.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1ai4h7jf9fqi7w565iprzylsh94pg4rhyf51hfj9kfdgdpb1abfs";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/generate_html/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Provides functions for generating HTML pages that contain the help texts for a set of functions";
+    longDescription = ''
+      This package provides functions for generating HTML pages that contain
+      the help texts for a set of functions. The package is designed to be as
+      general as possible, but also contains convenience functions for generating
+      a set of pages for entire packages.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/geometry/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/geometry/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b4bf57262faec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/geometry/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, matgeom
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "geometry";
+  version = "4.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1zmd97xir62fr5v57xifh2cvna5fg67h9yb7bp2vm3ll04y41lhs";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    matgeom
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/geometry/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus boost ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Library for extending MatGeom functionality";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/gsl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/gsl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5922c015dbdf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/gsl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, gsl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "gsl";
+  version = "2.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1lvfxbqmw8h1nlrxmvrl6j4xffmbzxfhdpxz3vrc6lg2g4jwaa6h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    gsl
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/gsl/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Octave bindings to the GNU Scientific Library";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image-acquisition/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image-acquisition/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..08c4305999b36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image-acquisition/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, libv4l
+, fltk
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "image-acquisition";
+  version = "0.2.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1amp6npkddnnz2i5rm6gvn65qrbn0nxzl2cja3dvc2xqg396wrhh";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    libv4l
+    fltk
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/image-acquisition/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Functions to capture images from connected devices";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The Octave-forge Image Aquisition package provides functions to
+      capture images from connected devices. Currently only v4l2 is supported.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8bff55fadc64f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/image/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "image";
+  version = "2.12.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1d3kqhbkq9acc29k42fcilfmykk9a0r321mvk46l5iibc7nqrmg7";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/image/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Functions for processing images";
+    longDescription = ''
+       The Octave-forge Image package provides functions for processing
+       images. The package also provides functions for feature extraction,
+       image statistics, spatial and geometric transformations, morphological
+       operations, linear filtering, and much more.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/instrument-control/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/instrument-control/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..51c8f300cc592
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/instrument-control/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "instrument-control";
+  version = "0.6.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0vckax6rx5v3fq5j6kb6n39a5zas9i24x4wvmjlhc8xbykkg5nkk";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/instrument-control/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Low level I/O functions for serial, i2c, spi, parallel, tcp, gpib, vxi11, udp and usbtmc interfaces";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/interval/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/interval/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0891a6143852d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/interval/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, mpfr
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "interval";
+  version = "3.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0a0sz7b4y53qgk1xr4pannn4w7xiin2pf74x7r54hrr1wf4abp20";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    mpfr
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/interval/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Interval arithmetic to evaluate functions over subsets of their domain";
+    longDescription = ''
+       The interval package for real-valued interval arithmetic allows one to
+       evaluate functions over subsets of their domain. All results are verified,
+       because interval computations automatically keep track of any errors.
+
+       These concepts can be used to handle uncertainties, estimate arithmetic
+       errors and produce reliable results. Also it can be applied to
+       computer-assisted proofs, constraint programming, and verified computing.
+
+       The implementation is based on interval boundaries represented by
+       binary64 numbers and is conforming to IEEE Std 1788-2015, IEEE standard
+       for interval arithmetic.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/io/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/io/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..57058c5f95de5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/io/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, enableJava
+, jdk
+, unzip
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "io";
+  version = "2.6.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "044y8lfp93fx0592mv6x2ss0nvjkjgvlci3c3ahav76pk1j3rikb";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    (lib.optional enableJava jdk)
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    unzip
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/io/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus bsd2 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Input/Output in external formats";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/level-set/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/level-set/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d1f882904d598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/level-set/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchgit
+, automake
+, autoconf
+, autoconf-archive
+, parallel
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "level-set";
+  version = "2019-04-13";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://git.code.sf.net/p/octave/${pname}";
+    rev = "dbf46228a7582eef4fe5470fd00bc5b421dd33a5";
+    sha256 = "14qwa4j24m2j7njw8gbagkgmp040h6k0h7kyrrzgb9y0jm087qkl";
+    fetchSubmodules = false;
+  };
+
+  # The monstrosity of a regex below is to ensure that only error() calls are
+  # corrected to have a %s format specifier. However, logic_error() also
+  # exists, (a simple regex also matches that), but logic_error() doesn't
+  # require a format specifier. So, this regex was born to handle that...
+  patchPhase = ''
+    substituteInPlace build.sh --replace "level-set-0.3.1" "${pname}-${version}" \
+                               --replace "\`pwd\`" '/build'
+    sed -i -E 's#[^[:graph:]]error \(# error \(\"%s\", #g' src/*.cpp
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    automake
+    autoconf
+    autoconf-archive
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    parallel
+  ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    source ./build.sh
+    cd -
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    name = "Level Set";
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/level-set/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Routines for calculating the time-evolution of the level-set equation and extracting geometric information from the level-set function";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/linear-algebra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/linear-algebra/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..18818c1db6064
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/linear-algebra/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "linear-algebra";
+  version = "2.2.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1wwjpxp9vjc6lszh0z3kgy4hyzpib8rvvh6b74ijh9qk9r9nmvjk";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/linear-algebra/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus lgpl3Plus ];
+    # They claim to have a FreeBSD license, but none of their code seems to have it.
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Additional linear algebra code, including matrix functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/lssa/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/lssa/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f737c104f3021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/lssa/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "lssa";
+  version = "0.1.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "10h9lzsi7pqh93i7y50b618g05fnbw9n0i505bz5kz4avfa990zh";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/lssa/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Tools to compute spectral decompositions of irregularly-spaced time series";
+    longDescription = ''
+       A package implementing tools to compute spectral decompositions of
+       irregularly-spaced time series. Currently includes functions based off
+       the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and Adolf Mathias' implementation for R
+       and C.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..505670f6298b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, fftw
+, fftwSinglePrec
+, fftwFloat
+, fftwLongDouble
+, lapack
+, blas
+, portaudio
+, jdk
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "ltfat";
+  version = "2.3.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0gghh5a4w649ff776wvidfvqas87m0n7rqs960pid1d11bnyqqrh";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    # Fixes a syntax error with performing multiplication.
+    ./syntax-error.patch
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    fftw
+    fftwSinglePrec
+    fftwFloat
+    fftwLongDouble
+    lapack
+    blas
+    portaudio
+    jdk
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    name = "The Large Time-Frequency Analysis Toolbox";
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/ltfat/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Toolbox for working with time-frequency analysis, wavelets and signal processing";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The Large Time/Frequency Analysis Toolbox (LTFAT) is a Matlab/Octave
+      toolbox for working with time-frequency analysis, wavelets and signal
+      processing. It is intended both as an educational and a computational
+      tool. The toolbox provides a large number of linear transforms including
+      Gabor and wavelet transforms along with routines for constructing windows
+      (filter prototypes) and routines for manipulating coefficients.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/syntax-error.patch b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/syntax-error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..732030b704342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ltfat/syntax-error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/inst/nonstatgab/nsdgt.m b/inst/nonstatgab/nsdgt.m
+index ac53963..81656cb 100644
+--- a/inst/nonstatgab/nsdgt.m
++++ b/inst/nonstatgab/nsdgt.m
+@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ for ii = 1:N
+         col = ceil(Lg/M(ii));
+         
+         temp = zeros(col*M(ii),W,assert_classname(f,g{1}));
+-        temp([end-floor(Lg/2)+1:end,1:ceil(Lg/2)],:) = bsxfun(@ ...
+-                                                          times,f(win_range,:),g{ii}(idx));
++        temp([end-floor(Lg/2)+1:end,1:ceil(Lg/2)],:) = bsxfun(@times, ...
++                                                          f(win_range,:),g{ii}(idx));
+         
+         temp = reshape(temp,M(ii),col,W);
+         X = squeeze(fft(sum(temp,2)));
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mapping/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mapping/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..26cea27a7253d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mapping/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, io # >= 2.2.7
+, geometry # >= 4.0.0
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "mapping";
+  version = "1.4.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0wj0q1rkrqs4qgpjh4vn9kcpdh94pzr6v4jc1vcrjwkp87yjv8c0";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    io
+    geometry
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/mapping/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Simple mapping and GIS .shp .dxf and raster file functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/matgeom/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/matgeom/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b8607cf5dff93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/matgeom/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "matgeom";
+  version = "1.2.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "05xfmlh1k3mhq8yag7gr8q1ysl1s43vm46fr1i3gcg9b1kkwi8by";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/matgeom/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl3Plus ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Geometry toolbox for 2D/3D geometric computing";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/miscellaneous/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/miscellaneous/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..74c3879aa9efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/miscellaneous/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+# Build-time dependencies
+, mlterm
+, ncurses # >= 5
+, units
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "miscellaneous";
+  version = "1.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "10n107njz24ln7v9a1l3dkh7s7vd6qwgbinrj1nl4wflxsir4l9k";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    mlterm
+    ncurses
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    units
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/miscellaneous/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Miscellaneous tools that don't fit somewhere else";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/msh/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/msh/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a4e876c8128f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/msh/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+# Octave Dependencies
+, splines
+# Other Dependencies
+, gmsh
+, gawk
+, pkg-config
+, dolfin
+, autoconf, automake
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "msh";
+  version = "1.0.10";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1mb5qrp9y1w1cbzrd9v84430ldy57ca843yspnrgbcqpxyyxbgfz";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+    autoconf automake
+    dolfin
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    dolfin
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    gmsh
+    gawk
+    dolfin
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    splines
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/msh/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Create and manage triangular and tetrahedral meshes for Finite Element or Finite Volume PDE solvers";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Create and manage triangular and tetrahedral meshes for Finite Element or
+      Finite Volume PDE solvers. Use a mesh data structure compatible with
+      PDEtool. Rely on gmsh for unstructured mesh generation.
+    '';
+    # Not technically broken, but missing some functionality.
+    # dolfin needs to be its own stand-alone library for the last tests to pass.
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mvn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mvn/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..06fd1905604dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/mvn/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "mvn";
+  version = "1.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "00w69hxqnqdm3744z6p7gvzci44a3gy228x6bgq3xf5n3jwicnmg";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/mvn/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Multivariate normal distribution clustering and utility functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a0517db714bda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nan/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, blas
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "nan";
+  version = "3.5.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0bp8zl50f8qj5sivl88kjdswm035v4li33fiq3v1gmh0pvgbcw7a";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    blas
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/nan/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "A statistics and machine learning toolbox for data with and w/o missing values";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ncarray/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ncarray/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..10db554c87fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ncarray/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, netcdf
+, statistics
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "ncarray";
+  version = "1.0.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0v96iziikvq2v7hczhbfs9zmk49v99kn6z3lgibqqpwam175yqgd";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    netcdf
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    statistics
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/ncarray/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Access a single or a collection of NetCDF files as a multi-dimensional array";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/netcdf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/netcdf/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9292da6918cd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/netcdf/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, netcdf
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "netcdf";
+  version = "1.0.14";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1wdwl76zgcg7kkdxjfjgf23ylzb0x4dyfliffylyl40g6cjym9lf";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    netcdf
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/netcdf/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "A NetCDF interface for Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nurbs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nurbs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e5e26d7bb952f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/nurbs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "nurbs";
+  version = "1.3.13";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0zkyldm63pc3pcal3yvj6af24cvpjvv9qfhf0ihhwcsh4w3yggyv";
+  };
+
+  # Has been fixed in more recent commits, but has not been pushed out as a
+  # new version yet.
+  # The sed changes allow nurbs to compile.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i s/feval/octave::feval/g src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/is_real_type/isreal/g src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/is_cell/iscell/g src/*.cc
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/nurbs/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Collection of routines for the creation, and manipulation of Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS), based on the NURBS toolbox by Mark Spink";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ocl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ocl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0e47160ad0ea4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/ocl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "ocl";
+  version = "1.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0ayi5x9zk9p4zm0qsr3i94lyp5468c9d1a7mqrqjqpdvkhrw0xnm";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/ocl/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Use OpenCL for parallelization";
+    longDescription = ''
+       Package using OpenCL for parallelization, mostly suitable to
+       Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) computations, selectively
+       using available OpenCL hardware and drivers.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octclip/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octclip/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..43bcfcd7d849b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octclip/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "octclip";
+  version = "2.0.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "05ijh3izgfaan84n6zp690nap9vnz0zicjd0cgvd1c6askm7vxql";
+  };
+
+  # The only compilation problem is that no formatting specifier was provided
+  # for the error function. Because errorText is a string, I provide such a
+  # formatting specifier.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i s/"error(errorText)"/"error(\"%s\", errorText)"/g src/*.cc
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    name = "GNU Octave Clipping Polygons Tool";
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/octclip/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus ]; # modified BSD?
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Perform boolean operations with polygons using the Greiner-Hormann algorithm";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octproj/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octproj/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..74596c015f856
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/octproj/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, proj # >= 6.3.0
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "octproj";
+  version = "2.0.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1mb8gb0r8kky47ap85h9qqdvs40mjp3ya0nkh45gqhy67ml06paq";
+  };
+
+  # The sed changes below allow for the package to be compiled.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i s/"error(errorText)"/"error(\"%s\", errorText)"/g src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/"warning(errorText)"/"warning(\"%s\", errorText)"/g src/*.cc
+  '';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    proj
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/octproj/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "GNU Octave bindings to PROJ library for cartographic projections and CRS transformations";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optics/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optics/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1324c6cd4ba33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optics/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "optics";
+  version = "0.1.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1d9z82241a1zmr8m1vgw10pyk81vn0q4dcyx7d05pigfn5gykrgc";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/optics/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Functions covering various aspects of optics";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optim/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optim/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b9561faafb127
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optim/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, struct
+, statistics
+, lapack
+, blas
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "optim";
+  version = "1.6.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1z2h8gy99glxh5qi3r22am2vdirlbklkq0lx4r8jrx1ak7awh47r";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    lapack
+    blas
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    struct
+    statistics
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/optim/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus publicDomain ];
+    # Modified BSD code seems removed
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Non-linear optimization toolkit";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optiminterp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optiminterp/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8409a10104e6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/optiminterp/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, gfortran
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "optiminterp";
+  version = "0.3.6";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "05nzj2jmrczbnsr64w2a7kww19s6yialdqnsbg797v11ii7aiylc";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gfortran
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/optiminterp/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "An optimal interpolation toolbox for octave";
+    longDescription = ''
+       An optimal interpolation toolbox for octave. This package provides
+       functions to perform a n-dimensional optimal interpolations of
+       arbitrarily distributed data points.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/parallel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/parallel/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0ea1d4d9df234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/parallel/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, struct
+, gnutls
+, pkg-config
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "parallel";
+  version = "4.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0wmpak01rsccrnb8is7fsjdlxw15157sqyf9s2fabr16yykfmvi8";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    gnutls
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    struct
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/parallel/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Parallel execution package";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/quaternion/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/quaternion/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4681b699684c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/quaternion/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "quaternion";
+  version = "2.4.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "040ncksf0xz32qmi4484xs3q01nappxrsvwwa60g04yjy7c4sbac";
+  };
+
+  # Octave replaced many of the is_thing_type check function with isthing.
+  # The patch changes the occurrences of the old functions.
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i s/is_numeric_type/isnumeric/g src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/is_real_type/isreal/g src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/is_bool_type/islogical/g src/*.cc
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/quaternion/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Quaternion package for GNU Octave, includes a quaternion class with overloaded operators";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/queueing/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/queueing/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..75b3e67e35369
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/queueing/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "queueing";
+  version = "1.2.7";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1yhw277i1qgmddf6wbfb6a4zrfhvplkmfr20q1l15z4xi8afnm6d";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/queueing/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Provides functions for queueing networks and Markov chains analysis";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The queueing package provides functions for queueing networks and Markov
+      chains analysis. This package can be used to compute steady-state
+      performance measures for open, closed and mixed networks with single or
+      multiple job classes. Mean Value Analysis (MVA), convolution, and various
+      bounding techniques are implemented. Furthermore, several transient and
+      steady-state performance measures for Markov chains can be computed, such
+      as state occupancy probabilities, mean time to absorption, time-averaged
+      sojourn times and so forth. Discrete- and continuous-time Markov chains
+      are supported.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/signal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/signal/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ae1339ca274a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/signal/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, control
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "signal";
+  version = "1.4.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1amfh7ifjqxz2kr34hgq2mq8ygmd5j3cjdk1k2dk6qcgic7n0y6r";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    control
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/signal/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Signal processing tools, including filtering, windowing and display functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sockets/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sockets/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..688bd6a0e9291
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sockets/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "sockets";
+  version = "1.2.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "18f1zpqcf6h9b4fb0x2c5nvc3mvgj1141f1s8d9gnlhlrjlq8vqg";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/sockets/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Socket functions for networking from within octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sparsersb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sparsersb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b8147f8d2815d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/sparsersb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, librsb
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "sparsersb";
+  version = "1.0.8";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0nl7qppa1cm51188hqhbfswlih9hmy1yz7v0f5i07z0g0kbd62xw";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    librsb
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Interface to the librsb package implementing the RSB sparse matrix format for fast shared-memory sparse matrix computations";
+    # Mark this way until KarlJoad builds librsb specifically for this package.
+    broken = true;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/splines/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/splines/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..69d5e46147d6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/splines/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "splines";
+  version = "1.3.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "16wisph8axc5xci0h51zj0y0x2wj6c9zybi2sjpb9v8z9dagjjqa";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/splines/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus publicDomain ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Additional spline functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/statistics/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/statistics/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..61133ec49e540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/statistics/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, io
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "statistics";
+  version = "1.4.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0iv2hw3zp7h69n8ncfjfgm29xaihdl5gp2slcw1yf23mhd7q2xkr";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    io
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/statistics/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus publicDomain ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Additional statistics functions for Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/stk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/stk/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16ac7b7d03dcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/stk/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "stk";
+  version = "2.6.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1rqndfankwlwm4igw3xqpnrrl749zz1d5pjzh1qbfns7ixwrm19a";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/stk/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "STK is a (not so) Small Toolbox for Kriging";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The STK is a (not so) Small Toolbox for Kriging. Its primary focus is on
+      the interpolation/regression technique known as kriging, which is very
+      closely related to Splines and Radial Basis Functions, and can be
+      interpreted as a non-parametric Bayesian method using a Gaussian Process
+      (GP) prior. The STK also provides tools for the sequential and non-sequential
+      design of experiments. Even though it is, currently, mostly geared towards
+      the Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments (DACE), the STK can be
+      useful for other applications areas (such as Geostatistics, Machine
+      Learning, Non-parametric Regression, etc.).
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/strings/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/strings/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7b556272f5da5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/strings/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, pcre
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "strings";
+  version = "1.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1b0ravfvq3bxd0w3axjfsx13mmmkifmqz6pfdgyf2s8vkqnp1qng";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    pcre
+  ];
+
+  # The gripes library no longer exists.
+  # https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP3/octave-forge-strings/octave-forge-strings.spec
+  # toascii is a deprecated function. Has been fixed in recent commits, but has
+  # not been released yet.
+  # https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/strings/ci/2db1dbb75557eef94605cb4ac682783ab78ac8d8/
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -i -s -e 's/gripes.h/errwarn.h/' -e 's/gripe_/err_/g' src/*.cc
+    sed -i s/toascii/double/g inst/*.m
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/strings/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    # Claims to have a freebsd license, but I found none.
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Additional functions for manipulation and analysis of strings";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/struct/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/struct/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a69a8e4b6e227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/struct/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "struct";
+  version = "1.0.16";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0gx20r126f0ccl4yflp823xi77p8fh4acx1fv0mmcsglmx4c4vgm";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/struct/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Additional structure manipulation functions";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/symbolic/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/symbolic/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e40d27e7c3857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/symbolic/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+# Octave's Python (Python 3)
+, python
+# Needed only to get the correct version of sympy needed
+, python2Packages
+}:
+
+let
+  # Need to use sympy 1.5.1 for https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/issues/1023
+  # It has been addressed, but not merged yet.
+  # In the meantime, we create a Python environment with Python 3, its mpmath
+  # version and sympy 1.5 from python2Packages.
+  pythonEnv = (let
+      overridenPython = let
+        packageOverrides = self: super: {
+          sympy = super.sympy.overridePythonAttrs (old: rec {
+            version = python2Packages.sympy.version;
+            src = python2Packages.sympy.src;
+          });
+        };
+      in python.override {inherit packageOverrides; self = overridenPython; };
+    in overridenPython.withPackages (ps: [
+      ps.sympy
+      ps.mpmath
+    ]));
+
+in buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "symbolic";
+  version = "2.9.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1jr3kg9q6r4r4h3hiwq9fli6wsns73rqfzkrg25plha9195c97h8";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pythonEnv ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/symbolic/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Adds symbolic calculation features to GNU Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tisean/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tisean/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b21ef0a5f56ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tisean/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+# Octave dependencies
+, signal # >= 1.3.0
+# Build dependencies
+, gfortran
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "tisean";
+  version = "0.2.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0nc2d9h91glxzmpizxdrc2dablw4bqhqhzs37a394c36myk4xjdv";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gfortran
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    signal
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/tisean/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Port of TISEAN 3.0.1";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tsa/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tsa/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a6320f0fc01c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/tsa/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, nan # > 3.0.0
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "tsa";
+  version = "4.6.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0p2cjszzjwhp4ih3q3r67qnikgxc0fwxc12p3727jbdvzq2h10mn";
+  };
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    nan
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/tsa/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Stochastic concepts and maximum entropy methods for time series analysis";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vibes/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vibes/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f60a5d7339a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vibes/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, vibes
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "vibes";
+  version = "0.2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1zn86rcsjkqg67hphz5inxc5xkgr18sby8za68zhppc2z7pd91ng";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    vibes
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/vibes/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus mit ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Easily display results (boxes, pavings) from interval methods";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The VIBes API allows one to easily display results (boxes, pavings) from
+      interval methods. VIBes consists in two parts: (1) the VIBes application
+      that features viewing, annotating and exporting figures, and (2) the
+      VIBes API that enables your program to communicate with the viewer in order
+      to draw figures. This package integrates the VIBes API into Octave. The
+      VIBes application is required for operation and must be installed
+      seperately. Data types from third-party interval arithmetic libraries for
+      Octave are also supported.
+    '';
+    # Marked this way until KarlJoad gets around to packaging the vibes program.
+    # https://github.com/ENSTABretagneRobotics/VIBES
+    broken = true;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/video/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/video/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8467da98be99e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/video/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, pkg-config
+, ffmpeg
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "video";
+  version = "2.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0s6j3c4dh5nsbh84s7vnd2ajcayy1gn07b4fcyrcynch3wl28mrv";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    ffmpeg
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/video/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus bsd3 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Wrapper for OpenCV's CvCapture_FFMPEG and CvVideoWriter_FFMPEG";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vrml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vrml/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e46e621b80d9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/vrml/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+# Octave dependencies
+, linear-algebra
+, miscellaneous
+, struct
+, statistics
+# Runtime dependencies
+, freewrl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "vrml";
+  version = "1.0.13";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1mx93k150agd27mbzvds13v9z0x36j68hwpdvlvjmcl2fga5fly4";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    freewrl
+  ];
+
+  requiredOctavePackages = [
+    linear-algebra
+    miscellaneous
+    struct
+    statistics
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/vrml/index.html";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3Plus fdl12Plus ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "3D graphics using VRML";
+    # Marked this way until KarlJoad gets freewrl as a runtime dependency.
+    broken = true;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/windows/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/windows/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..274ba1e3b7dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/windows/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "windows";
+  version = "1.5.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "05bsf3q816b9vwgmjdm761ybhmk8raq6dzxqvd11brma0granx3a";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/windows/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Provides COM interface and additional functionality on Windows";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/octave-modules/zeromq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/zeromq/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7a8f7f6d16a15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/octave-modules/zeromq/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, zeromq
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "zeromq";
+  version = "1.5.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "18h1039ri7dr37jv20cvj5vhw7b57frrda0hhbvlgixinbqmn9j7";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    zeromq
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/zeromq/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "ZeroMQ bindings for GNU Octave";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 761a5faaecf27..c50b6cdf0636e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11346,6 +11346,8 @@ in
     overridePlatforms = ["x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin"];
   };
 
+  octavePackages = recurseIntoAttrs octave.pkgs;
+
   ocropus = callPackage ../applications/misc/ocropus { };
 
   pachyderm = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/pachyderm { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6278a7042e1bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+# This file contains the GNU Octave add-on packages set.
+# Each attribute is an Octave library.
+# Expressions for the Octave libraries are supposed to be in `pkgs/development/octave-modules/<name>/default.nix`.
+
+# When contributing a new package, if that package has a dependency on another
+# octave package, then you DO NOT need to explicitly list it as such when
+# performing the callPackage. It will be passed implicitly.
+# In addition, try to use the same dependencies as the ones octave needs, which
+# should ensure greater compatibility between Octave itself and its packages.
+
+# Like python-packages.nix, packages from top-level.nix are not in the scope
+# of the `callPackage` used for packages here. So, when we do need packages
+# from outside, we can `inherit` them from `pkgs`.
+{ pkgs
+, lib
+, stdenv
+, fetchurl
+, newScope
+, octave
+}:
+
+with lib;
+
+makeScope newScope (self:
+  let
+    inherit (octave) blas lapack gfortran python texinfo gnuplot;
+
+    callPackage = self.callPackage;
+
+    buildOctavePackage = callPackage ../development/interpreters/octave/build-octave-package.nix {
+      inherit lib stdenv;
+      inherit octave;
+      inherit computeRequiredOctavePackages;
+    };
+
+    wrapOctave = callPackage ../development/interpreters/octave/wrap-octave.nix {
+      inherit octave;
+      inherit (pkgs) makeSetupHook makeWrapper;
+    };
+
+    # Given a list of required Octave package derivations, get a list of
+    # ALL required Octave packages needed for the ones specified to run.
+    computeRequiredOctavePackages = drvs: let
+      # Check whether a derivation is an octave package
+      hasOctavePackage = drv: drv?isOctavePackage;
+      packages = filter hasOctavePackage drvs;
+    in unique (packages ++ concatLists (catAttrs "requiredOctavePackages" packages));
+
+  in {
+
+    inherit callPackage buildOctavePackage computeRequiredOctavePackages;
+
+    inherit (callPackage ../development/interpreters/octave/hooks { })
+      writeRequiredOctavePackagesHook;
+
+    arduino = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/arduino {
+      inherit (pkgs) arduino;
+    };
+
+    audio = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/audio { };
+
+    bim = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/bim { };
+
+    bsltl = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/bsltl { };
+
+    cgi = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/cgi { };
+
+    communications = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/communications { };
+
+    control = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/control { };
+
+    data-smoothing = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/data-smoothing { };
+
+    database = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/database { };
+
+    dataframe = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/dataframe { };
+
+    dicom = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/dicom { };
+
+    divand = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/divand { };
+
+    doctest = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/doctest { };
+
+    econometrics = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/econometrics { };
+
+    fem-fenics = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/fem-fenics {
+      # PLACEHOLDER until KarlJoad gets dolfin packaged.
+      dolfin = null;
+      ffc = null;
+    };
+
+    fits = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/fits { };
+
+    financial = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/financial { };
+
+    fpl = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/fpl { };
+
+    fuzzy-logic-toolkit = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/fuzzy-logic-toolkit { };
+
+    ga = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/ga { };
+
+    general = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/general {
+      nettle = pkgs.nettle;
+    };
+
+    generate_html = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/generate_html { };
+
+    geometry = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/geometry { };
+
+    gsl = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/gsl {
+      inherit (pkgs) gsl;
+    };
+
+    image = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/image { };
+
+    image-acquisition = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/image-acquisition { };
+
+    instrument-control = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/instrument-control { };
+
+    io = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/io {
+      inherit (octave) enableJava;
+    };
+
+    interval = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/interval { };
+
+    level-set = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/level-set { };
+
+    linear-algebra = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/linear-algebra { };
+
+    lssa = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/lssa { };
+
+    ltfat = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/ltfat {
+      inherit (octave) fftw fftwSinglePrec portaudio jdk;
+      inherit (pkgs) fftwFloat fftwLongDouble;
+    };
+
+    mapping = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/mapping { };
+
+    matgeom = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/matgeom { };
+
+    miscellaneous = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/miscellaneous { };
+
+    msh = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/msh {
+      # PLACEHOLDER until KarlJoad gets dolfin packaged.
+      dolfin = null;
+    };
+
+    mvn = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/mvn { };
+
+    nan = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/nan { };
+
+    ncarray = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/ncarray { };
+
+    netcdf = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/netcdf {
+      inherit (pkgs) netcdf;
+    };
+
+    nurbs = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/nurbs { };
+
+    ocl = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/ocl { };
+
+    octclip = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/octclip { };
+
+    octproj = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/octproj { };
+
+    optics = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/optics { };
+
+    optim = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/optim { };
+
+    optiminterp = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/optiminterp { };
+
+    parallel = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/parallel { };
+
+    quaternion = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/quaternion { };
+
+    queueing = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/queueing { };
+
+    signal = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/signal { };
+
+    sockets = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/sockets { };
+
+    sparsersb = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/sparsersb {
+      librsb = null;
+      # TODO: Package the librsb library to build this package.
+      # http://librsb.sourceforge.net/
+    };
+
+    stk = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/stk { };
+
+    splines = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/splines { };
+
+    statistics = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/statistics { };
+
+    strings = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/strings { };
+
+    struct = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/struct { };
+
+    symbolic = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/symbolic {
+      inherit (octave) python;
+    };
+
+    tisean = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/tisean { };
+
+    tsa = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/tsa { };
+
+    vibes = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/vibes {
+      vibes = null;
+      # TODO: Need to package vibes:
+      # https://github.com/ENSTABretagneRobotics/VIBES
+    };
+
+    video = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/video { };
+
+    vrml = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/vrml {
+      freewrl = null;
+    };
+
+    windows = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/windows { };
+
+    zeromq = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/zeromq {
+      inherit (pkgs) zeromq;
+    };
+
+  })