Canteen menus from Studierendenwerk Aachen in your terminal - as one-shot
output for scripts, and as an interactive full-screen view.
Signing in uses RWTH's device-code flow: mensa login prints a URL that
already contains the confirmation code. Because a snap runs confined, the
credentials live in the snap's own directory rather than in ~/.config/mensa,
so this install needs a sign-in of its own.
Run snap alias aachen-mensa-cli.mensa mensa to get the short command the
documentation uses.
(Ownership verified)
The publisher has verified that they own this domain.
It does not guarantee the Snap is an official upload
from the upstream project.
Enable snaps on Fedora and install Aachen Mensa CLI
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Enable snapd
Snap can be installed on Fedora from the command line:
sudo dnf install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Install Aachen Mensa CLI
To install Aachen Mensa CLI, simply use the following command: