Bootstrap: library
From: ubuntu:18.04

%post
    apt-get update && apt-get -y install less libcanberra-gtk3-module
    apt-get -y install octave=4.2.2-1ubuntu1
    apt-get clean
    apt-get autoremove

%environment
    export LC_ALL=C

%runscript
    octave "$@"

%help 
    Octave v4.2.2 running on an Ubuntu Bionic base. (Yays!)

    Running the container with no input will start an IDE session.  Or you can
    run the container with a script as input.