FIXED: Working offline with CVMFS installation

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Hello,

now it is possible to work offline with CVMFS based installation.
This means if you disconnect from the internet, then your computer will be able to use locally cached mpdroot.

  • Every new installation from now on (by running nica-init.sh) has this enabled by default. You don’t have to do anything.

  • If you already have CVMFS based installation, you can enable this feature by editing (as sudo) and adding 3 lines at the end of the file /etc/cvmfs/default.local:

CVMFS_WORKSPACE=/var/lib/cvmfs
CVMFS_CACHE_PRIMARY=nica
CVMFS_CACHE_nica_TYPE=posix

          then simply reboot your computer.

NOTE: ONLY CACHED FILES CAN BE USED IN OFFLINE MODE.
Example: if you were running while online runMC.C with Box generator, and then want to run offline for the first time runMC.C with other generator - say Urqmd, it will probably not work (as the Urqmd library was not yet loaded to your local computer).