diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/README b/academic/qtoctave/README
index 8a655952a2..8717567203 100644
--- a/academic/qtoctave/README
+++ b/academic/qtoctave/README
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-QtOctave is a graphical user interface for gnu octave, which is an 
+QtOctave is a graphical user interface for gnu octave, which is an
 open source program alternative to Matlab.
 
 QtOctave requires Octave and Qt4, both available on SlackBuilds.org.
-
-If you build on a multicore system, add JOBS={#} to enable parallel 
-compilation, as in:   JOBS=4 ./qtoctave.SlackBuild    
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/doinst.sh b/academic/qtoctave/doinst.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fb28930db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/academic/qtoctave/doinst.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+if [ -x /usr/bin/update-desktop-database ]; then
+  /usr/bin/update-desktop-database -q usr/share/applications >/dev/null 2>&1
+fi
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/octave-sombrero.png b/academic/qtoctave/octave-sombrero.png
deleted file mode 100644
index e18557cc9e..0000000000
Binary files a/academic/qtoctave/octave-sombrero.png and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.SlackBuild b/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.SlackBuild
index c24da4b848..fc0c8a2326 100644
--- a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.SlackBuild
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 # Slackware build script for QtOctave
 
 # Written by Mauro Giachero (mauro dot giachero at gmail dot com)
+# Modified by Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
 
 PRGNAM=qtoctave
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.7.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.8.1}
 ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
@@ -15,12 +16,12 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-JOBS=${JOBS:-3}
-
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -DNDEBUG"
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -DNDEBUG"
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -DNDEBUG"
 fi
 
 set -e # Exit on most errors
@@ -30,23 +31,46 @@ mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
-cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
  -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
-chmod a+x configure
 
-CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
-./configure \
-  --prefix=/usr \
-  --qtdir=/usr/lib/qt4
+cmake \
+  -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr \
+  .
+make
 
-make -j$JOBS
-make install INSTALL_ROOT=$PKG
+# The install target doesn't have a DESTDIR or INSTALL_ROOT or equivalent,
+# and setting the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to $PKG/usr results in a lot of
+# '/tmp/SBo/package-qtoctave' strings embedded in the qtoctave binary.
+# This *could* have security implications (for example, if that binary first
+# looks in the temp directory for things).  It's low risk, and would require
+# someone on the system to have knowledge of how the package was built, so
+# I'm being a bit "chicken little" here, but correct is always better, so I'm
+# going to do this the hard way...  --rworkman
+#
+# Be sure to check the src/cmake_install.cmake file in version updates to
+# make sure we don't miss something
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/qtoctave $PKG/usr/bin \
+         $PKG/usr/share/applications $PKG/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps
+cp -a src/config_files/config.rc src/images src/lang src/menus \
+      src/config_files/octave.xml src/octave_doc src/qtoctave_doc \
+      src/scripts $PKG/usr/share/qtoctave
+# QtOctave better fits in "Science & Math" (with Octave) than
+# under "Edutainment" subcategories
+# cp -a src/config_files/qtoctave.desktop $PKG/usr/share/applications/
+cat src/config_files/qtoctave.desktop |sed "s/Education/Development/g" \
+    >$PKG/usr/share/applications/qtoctave.desktop
+ln -s /usr/share/qtoctave/images/qtoctave.png $PKG/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/
+cp -a src/qtoctave $PKG/usr/bin
+find $PKG/usr/share -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
+find $PKG/usr/share -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
 
 ( cd $PKG
   find . | xargs file | grep "executable" | grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
@@ -54,21 +78,17 @@ make install INSTALL_ROOT=$PKG
 )
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-# The "doc" folder contains developer-oriented documentation, while (qt)octave-doc contain
-# user-oriented docs.
-cp -a $PRGNAM/doc LEEME.txt NEWS.txt LICENSE_GPL.txt README.txt \
+cp -a leeme.txt news.txt LICENSE_GPL.txt readme.txt \
   $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-ln -s /usr/share/$PRGNAM/qtoctave-doc $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/qtoctave-doc
-ln -s /usr/share/$PRGNAM/octave-doc $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/octave-doc
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
-
-# QtOctave doesn't have a nice icon for menus, so we use the Octave icon
-cp $CWD/octave-sombrero.png $PKG/usr/share/qtoctave/images
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/applications
-cp $CWD/qtoctave.desktop $PKG/usr/share/applications
+( cd $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+  ln -s /usr/share/$PRGNAM/qtoctave-doc .
+  ln -s /usr/share/$PRGNAM/octave-doc .
+)
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n -p $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.desktop b/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.desktop
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f0bf21c2e..0000000000
--- a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.desktop
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
-Name=QtOctave
-Comment=Scientific Computing using GNU Octave
-Exec=/usr/bin/qtoctave
-Icon=/usr/share/qtoctave/images/octave-sombrero.png
-Terminal=false
-Type=Application
-Categories=Development;Math;Science;
-StartupNotify=true
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.info b/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.info
index 2cd40018dd..ac60be796f 100644
--- a/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.info
+++ b/academic/qtoctave/qtoctave.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="qtoctave"
-VERSION="0.7.1"
+VERSION="0.8.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://qtoctave.wordpress.com/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://forja.rediris.es/frs/download.php/490/qtoctave-0.7.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="c6dd28bd08d13803636c1eb08eb35930"
+DOWNLOAD="http://forja.rediris.es/frs/download.php/877/qtoctave-0.8.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="b4e237b578f9c2624bb0fab2cb7ea691"
 MAINTAINER="Mauro Giachero"
-EMAIL="mauro.giachero@gmail.com"
-APPROVED="rworkman"
+EMAIL="mauro_dot_giachero_at_gmail_dot_com"
+APPROVED="David Somero"
diff --git a/academic/qtoctave/slack-desc b/academic/qtoctave/slack-desc
index 828453fa12..2133fe67c5 100644
--- a/academic/qtoctave/slack-desc
+++ b/academic/qtoctave/slack-desc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also customary to
 # leave one space after the ':'.
 
-        |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+        |-----handy-ruler----------------------------------------------------|
 qtoctave: QtOctave (a qt-based gui for Octave)
 qtoctave:
 qtoctave: QtOctave is a graphical user interface for gnu octave, which is an