Check if installing only octave might be a solution.

arokem · arokem · commit 6f290cdda98f · 2015-09-06T19:50:26.000-07:00
Trying to pick up some wisdom from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30167348/octave-and-java-libjvm-so-not-found
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ env:
 before_install:
   - sudo apt-add-repository --yes ppa:octave/stable
   - sudo apt-get update
-  - sudo apt-get install octave liboctave-dev
+  - sudo apt-get install octave
   - wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O miniconda.sh;
   - bash miniconda.sh -b -p $HOME/miniconda
   - export PATH="$HOME/miniconda/bin:$PATH"
