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How to install w3m on Oracle Linux 8

Another MikeFeb 26 2021

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

 [root@notneo:test:~]$ dnf install w3m
Last metadata expiration check: 0:40:35 ago on Thu 25 Feb 2021 10:17:43 GMT.
Error:  
 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)
[root@notneo:test:~]$  

(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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