On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Friedrich Laher wrote:
  

SuSE 11.2 64bit KDE
as suggested I installed from SuSE repository
after installing texlife ( from DVD ),
yast installed TeXmacs in
/usr/lib/TeXmacs
    

I added
export TEXMACS_PATH=/usr/lib/TeXmacs
export PATH=$TEXMACS_PATH/bin:$PATH
in my .profile  .
    

If yast installed TeXmacs for you, then you probably should
not modify the TEXMACS_PATH and PATH in your .profile

Best wishes, --Joris
  

fritz@linux-0pay:~> texmacs &
[1] 19230
fritz@linux-0pay:~>
TeXmacs]
TeXmacs] Installation problem: please send a bug report.
TeXmacs] The initialization file init-texmacs.scm could not be found.
TeXmacs] Please check the values of the environment variables
TeXmacs] TEXMACS_PATH and GUILE_LOAD_PATH. init-texmacs.scm should
TeXmacs] be readable and in the directory $TEXMACS_PATH/progs
TeXmacs] or in the directory $GUILE_LOAD_PATH
-----------------
there exists guile
there is no GUILE_LOAD_PATH
there is a
init-texmacs.scm
in
usr/share/progs