diff --git a/scripts/create_octave.sh b/scripts/create_octave.sh
index 8b13789..50a11b4 100644
--- a/scripts/create_octave.sh
+++ b/scripts/create_octave.sh
@@ -1 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
 
+OCTAVE_VERSION=8.4.0
+
+wget -c https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/octave/octave-${OCTAVE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+tar -xvf octave-${OCTAVE_VERSION}.tar.gz
+cd octave-${OCTAVE_VERSION}
+mkdir build && cd build
+../configure --prefix=/opt/octave/${OCTAVE_VERSION} --enable-64 --enable-readline --with-blas --with-lapack --with-fftw3 --with-qt --with-magick
+make
+make check
+make install