@corphiloscience: using bash or zsh, type it before the meteor command like this “METEOR_OFFLINE_CATELOG=1 meteor add package-name”. if you want it to stick so you don’t have to type it over and over, add it to your .bashrc as “export METEOR_OFFLINE_CATALOG=1”. You’ll have to manually update your catalog occasionally if you do that though.
If you’re on windows, you may have to do SET METEOR_OFFLINE_CATALOG=1 or something like that…
Working for me now. I clearly don’t have the patience to wait 5 minutes. As typically happens with technology, if I had been patient enough and waited to post would the system have fixed itself and would I still be hovering over the reply button now? Since I did decide to post is that what caused Hal to kick into gear and fix the problem? We shall never know the true answer…get back to work