On 2/23/07, Douglas Soares de Andrade <dsandrade at gmail.com> wrote: > pacman3 -Ss dvd+rw This is a problem with using regex syntax for searching. There are very few packages this goofs with, and this is one of them. Try: pacman3 -Ss 'dvd\+rw' or pacman3 -Ss dvd\\+rw