diff --git a/dev-octave/symbolic/Manifest b/dev-octave/symbolic/Manifest
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+DIST octaveforge_configure 75 BLAKE2B a6d08088e51628113f7ee2d125fad93a20978cdec60d30cd6628a6056b127968ccf0bc58d2a01166ecc68e8e1ff25518ecf0a2fff69f1ccf63ba2e95eb327db2 SHA512 f293f8ac550953d7c758dadd1bfbf57754a725e6480e8f11b85b883370989b323324492a16118a9b4bfa897a6720f7f20776754cbf763c61bfa10c90191d9a8f
+DIST symbolic-2.9.0.tar.gz 259373 BLAKE2B fc2301d41489d32acc1ee3ada569d8e45d9440a702fad09c4e2a59467e736b9b57988044ec3c0780ad713359af0865fb7b0cf6fb332208f1c3d23a1aff55b852 SHA512 1ff7d5785c74b9d11db372efbe4d99cb3c82b125048b2910e8537ba11711d9f2a8848fa9ed076b289a933fe111df7e7cdecd9e8eec6ef020da16b94cba0a0ed0
diff --git a/dev-octave/symbolic/metadata.xml b/dev-octave/symbolic/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <description>co-maintainers welcome</description>
+    <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <changelog>https://octave.sourceforge.io/symbolic/NEWS.html</changelog>
+    <doc lang="en">https://octave.sourceforge.io/symbolic/overview.html</doc>
+    <remote-id type="sourceforge">octave/symbolic</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-octave/symbolic/symbolic-2.9.0.ebuild b/dev-octave/symbolic/symbolic-2.9.0.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..10} )
+
+inherit octaveforge python-single-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Octave Symbolic Package using SymPy"
+HOMEPAGE="https://octave.sourceforge.io/symbolic/index.html"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=sci-mathematics/octave-4.2.0
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/mpmath[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/sympy[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed -e "s|python = 'python3';|python = \'${EPYTHON}\';|g" -i inst/private/defaultpython.m || die
+	octaveforge_src_prepare
+}