apt install with an amd64 under SuSE 9.1

Been using apt on SuSE for a while and have loved it until now.  Just got my 
AMD-64 (which rocks if you have to do video rendering or heavy duty 
computing) .  After doing a fresh install of SuSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel  which I 
also have some good things to say about) I do my traditional Yast Online 
Update to get the system to baseline.  Then go to install apt.  Get apt 
0.5.15, apt libs 0.5.15 and synaptic 0.48.2. and go to install....  I then 
get the following error messages.

-- rpm -ihv *.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libpopt.so.0 is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpm-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpmio-4.1.so is needed by apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        libpopt.so.0 is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpm-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        librpmio-4.1.so is needed by apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-0.suse091.rb.3
        libzvt2 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        scrollkeeper is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        libglade-2.0.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        libpopt.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        librpm-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        librpmio-4.1.so is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1
        libzvt-2.0.so.0 is needed by synaptic-0.48.2-rb.suse091.1

Hmmm, it cannot find some libraries.  Check and at least some of those 
libraries are installed in /usr/lib64.  Is SuSE not looking in /usr/lib64 
when the rpm is invoked?  Make symbolic link to /lib and /lib64.  Does not 
work.  So, apt needs those libs and cannot find them.  

Shall I simply wait for a few weeks for the 64 bit version to have the bugs 
worked out, is there a relativly simple solution or workaround?

Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss
Associate Professor of Marketing
University of Arkansas Monticello