diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 680affd0..e73378dc 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -23,17 +23,10 @@ allprojects {
         maven { url "http://jsbml.sourceforge.net/m2repo" }
         // mangosdk
         maven { url 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~maven/m2repo' }
-        // javaoctave
-        maven { url 'https://kenai.com/svn/javaoctave~maven-repository/maven2/' }
-        /*
-            Note for IDEA users - the IDE can't find javaoctave when sychronizing with gradle. You have to download
-            it from url above and include it in the project manually
-         */
     }
 
     //global configuration
     ext {
-        javaoctave = '0.6.4'
         commonsLogging = '1.1.1'
         jsbml = '1.2-beta1'
     }
@@ -46,6 +39,7 @@ allprojects {
         compile 'org.javassist:javassist:3.22.0-CR1'
         compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.2'
         compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.5'
+        compile files("${project.rootProject.rootDir}/lib/javaoctave-0.6.4.jar")
     }
 
     license {
diff --git a/extensions/computation-simulation-api/build.gradle b/extensions/computation-simulation-api/build.gradle
index 8fdf452a..2cff47fc 100644
--- a/extensions/computation-simulation-api/build.gradle
+++ b/extensions/computation-simulation-api/build.gradle
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ dependencies {
 	compile project(':model:trajectory')
 	compile project(':model:space')
 	compile project(':core')
-	compile "dk.ange:javaoctave:$javaoctave"
 	compile "commons-logging:commons-logging:$commonsLogging"
 }
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diff --git a/lib/javaoctave-0.6.4.jar b/lib/javaoctave-0.6.4.jar
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8df616ba
Binary files /dev/null and b/lib/javaoctave-0.6.4.jar differ
diff --git a/model/ode/build.gradle b/model/ode/build.gradle
index dcf1369b..4bd9f288 100644
--- a/model/ode/build.gradle
+++ b/model/ode/build.gradle
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ group = 'org.sybila.parasim.model.ode'
 
 dependencies {
 	compile project(':model:trajectory')
-	compile "dk.ange:javaoctave:$javaoctave"
 	compile "commons-logging:commons-logging:$commonsLogging"
 	compile "org.sbml.jsbml:jsbml:$jsbml"	
 }
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