How that? You cannot even properly search for packages by name. It always search...

Cafesolo · on March 27, 2011

I just tried the following:

  $ pacman -Ss ^opera

and got this:

  community/opera 11.01-1
      A fast and secure web browser and Internet suite.

Is that what you wanted to do?

aw3c2 · on March 27, 2011

Thanks! I swear that did not work some months ago.

dkersten · on March 28, 2011

I've been using Arch for almost two years and its always worked. I guess your argument may have been slightly wrong (no s after S or something perhaps).

I would, however, recommend using a wrapper like yaourt which can install from AUR too. With yaourt, iirc (I don't exactly install packages very often these days, since I have everything I need), I can just go:

yaourt opera