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How to install w3m on Oracle Linux 8

Another MikeFeb 26 2021 — edited Feb 26 2021

EDIT: I can't delete this, but please ignore it and look at https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/4481339/how-to-install-w3m-on-oracle-linux-8 instead. The first time I tried to post this I got a message saying that it would appear after it was approved. When I looked the next day I found it hadn't been posted but showed in "My Drafts". Because it was in "My Drafts" and in the absence of any indication that it was pending approval, I thought maybe something had gone wrong somewhere to tried posting it again. That again got me a message saying it would appear after approval. And the post still appeared in "My Drafts". And now both posts have been approved even though they're the same. There is obvious scope for improvement in the User Experience of posting here for the first time.

Having found the Oracle EPEL repo doesn't (yet) contain anywhere near as many packages as the upstream one, I've added the upstream EPEL as described at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL (According to https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/comment/16781914/#Comment_16781914 this "works just fine".)
I want to install w3m from the EPEL repo, but when I try I get

 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides perl(NKF) needed by w3m-0.5.3-48.git20200502.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

(except without the random colours bold that has inexplicably been added to the plain text I copy/pasted in to the code block which I can't work out how to get rid of)
For CentOS 8 the perl-NKF is in the optional PowerTools repo, but I can't find an equivalent repo for Oracle Linux 8. Is the perl-NKF package available in one of the Oracle Linux 8 repos?

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