On a recently acquired,  relatively old AMD Sempron box, I found that while
OpenBSD 5.7 works well, many times adding common packages such as R failed,
due to mirrors not having the dependencies, but when I switched over to
5.6, this was not an issue.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Josh Grosse <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 01:06:10PM +0330, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I get some errors while I installing every package with pkg_add such as:
> >
> >  couldn't read packing-list from installed package
> > gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0p1.tgz
> > File /var/db/pkg/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0p1.tgz/+CONTENTS does not exist
> > And
> > Fatal error: Installation of gtk+2-2.24.26 failed, partial installation
> > recorded as partial-gtk+2-2.24.26.2
> >  at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgAdd.pm line 817.
> >
> > How I can reset PKG configuration and data to base initial settings
> > (factory like)?
>
> The database is correct, per pkg_check, but you have PARTIALLY installed
> gtk+2.  You can delete this partial package, manually, with
>
> # pkg_delete partial-gtk+2
>
> And, if you want to start over, with a corrected $PKG_PATH or
> /etc/pkg.conf configuration pointing to a mirror near you, rather than
> the primary file server in Canada, for better function, you will have
> greater success.
>
> If you want to remove all packages, you can use the -X option:
>
> # pkg_delete -X
>
> That will delete all packages, as described in the pkg_delete(1) man
> page.
>
> If you have any third party firmware installed as packages, you will
> want to include their names after the "-X" to ensure they are not
> removed.  The example command, shown below, will list any firmware
> packages you may have installed..
>
> $ ls -d /var/db/pkg/*firm*
>
>

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