Welcome to Frugal money management blog at samoht.se! This site has grown from what started as the Frugal money management program's homepage into a personal money management blog, of which the program is still an important part. In order to visulize the change the Frugal program has moved to its own page where you will find links, user's guide and information - while the main site will focus on money management tips in general.

Frugal is a simple yet powerful personal finance and stock portfolio management application. It provides quick on-line stock quotes and currency rates updates and easy to understand graphical and textual views of your financial situation.

Frugal version 0.23 (beta) solves a bug in the transaction history.

More information is available at SourceForge

Frugal can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/frugal

Frugal has successfully been run in Mac OS X 10.6 - also known as Snow Leopard.

It is necessary to install one Python package (matplotlib) that is not shipped with Mac OS X by default. Installation can be done in a couple of minutes.

1. Open Safari and go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/. Click Download Now! to download the tar.gz package.
2. Go to Applications->Utilities and open the Terminal.
3. Unpack the matplotlib package by typing the following commands into the Terminal window
   $ cd Downloads
   $ tar xvf matplotlib-0.99.1.2.tar
4. Open a Finder window and go to Downloads/matplotlib-0.99.1.1. Double-click on make.osx and open it in the TextEdit application.
   Change the following lines
   PYVERSION=2.5
   MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
   In CFLAGS and LDFLAGS update the sdk file name to MacOSX10.6.sdk
   Scroll down to the bottom and update the hdiutil line with macosx10.6.mpkg
   Save the file and close TextEdit.
5. Install matplotlib by
   $ cd matplotlib-0.99.1.1
   $ sudo PREFIX=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5 make -f make.osx fetch deps mpl_install

Advanced users have noticed that matplotlib was installed for Python 2.5 above, while Python 2.6 is the default Python version in Mac OS X. I chose that path as Python 2.6 runs in 64-bits mode while the Python package wx (required by Frugal) shipped with Mac OS X is only compiled for 32-bits. It is now required to run Frugal with Python 2.5.

Run Frugal from the Terminal by typing the command

$ python2.5 frugal/src/frugal.py

This new Frugal 0.22 package includes a py2exe Windows executable, allowing Windows users that do not have Python installed to run Frugal. This removes most prerequisites to using Frugal under Windows.

The package should be viewed as a preliminary release as the binary has not been tested fully. Basic tests have been run on Windows XP but users may experience problems with other Windows-flavors as well as with some use cases. Please provide feedback in the bug tracker.

Frugal is a simple yet powerful personal finance and stock portfolio management application. It provides quick on-line stock quotes and currency rates updates and easy to understand graphical and textual views of your financial situation.

Frugal version 0.22 (beta) adds functionality to handle stock splits.

More information is available at http://frugal.sourceforge.net

Frugal can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/frugal

Frugal version 0.21 (beta) improves the project handling in Frugal. It also adds functionality to include a new currency in a project.

An updated user's guide has been released together with the program.