Try closing Pharo and opening it again... this is imho due to slow Inria servers and I've encountered it many times.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Check CatalogProvider. It should download the catalog from the cloud and cache it locally. If not you can work from there on to see what is wrong.

> On 10 Nov 2017, at 13:32, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> Today I downloaded Pharo and found Catalog to be empty.
> http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo6.1-64-linux.zip
>
> cheers -ben
>