Well I have installed Slackware 14.1 32-bit and I'm trying to get slapt-get to install any patches. After I installed slapt-get, I get the following error whenever I do an update.
-su: /usr/sbin/slapt-get: No such file or directory
I did confirm that there exist a file called "slapt-get" at the above location and it is executible. Any help would be appreciated.

If it's binary, maybe it's a 64 bit executable instead of 32?

Try "file /usr/sbin/slapt-get" to make sure.

PS preferably use slackpkg instead of slapt-get for that purpose.

"No such file or directory" usually means one (or more) missing libraries ...
Try 'readelf -d /usr/sbin/slapt-get' ('readelf' from the 'man' himself)

"No such file or directory" usually means one (or more) missing libraries ...
Try 'readelf -d /usr/sbin/slapt-get' ('readelf' from the 'man' himself)

Well I tried the 64-bit and got "cannot execute file" error so I resorted to installing the patches manually. After the patch installs, I can no longer bring up Firefox. It's late now and I've done 4 re-installs. I'll trying debugging tomorrow.

Of course 64 bit binaries won't work on a 32 bit Slackware. Why try that?

As perbh pointed out, you could miss some library, either because you didn't install a full Slackware (you should), or you didn't install some dependency of slapt-get.

Also, which patches? I'm not aware of any needed patch.

Which version of slapt-get do you have, where did you get it, how did you install it?

Again, if you want to use Slackware, you'll have to learn how it works and to use (exclusively, at least till you master it) tools included in it. Slapt-get is not among them for a reason.

To begin learning how Slackware works, type "mail" on a terminal as root and read the mail from Patrick Volkerding then visit http://docs.slackware.com.

Or, if for some reason you want to use slapt-get, just install Salix instead of Slackware.

I've been using slapt-get on 14.1 with no problems. First try
upgradepkg --install-new
and if that doesn't help then download the slapt-get txz file and use installpkg to reinstall it.

Thanks for your help. I forgot about slackpkg which solved everything. Also, re-installing Slackware in the late of night wasn't helpful.