Hi,
looking for some of my own answers when i read this post. I was able to get apt, and synaptic to work in SuSE 9.1.
I installed apt via YaST from an RPM i grabbed off (unfortunately you will have to resolve all the dependencies manually this one last time...)I had no luck with apt-get'ing synaptic, even when ignoring the GPG signiture check <apt-get -o GPG::Check=false install synaptic> package installed, but was broken.
Uninstalled RPM, then I downloaded and compiled the source, and using the errors from the MULTIPLE ./configure attempts filled in the missing peices.
Hope this helps, and isn't the MOST retarded way to do this. I am learning as I go
Oh. My issue: anybody know how to tell synaptic to ignore missing signitures like you can with apt-get?