diff --git a/lynx.spec b/lynx.spec
index 45940fd..5b06057 100644
--- a/lynx.spec
+++ b/lynx.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Summary: A text-based Web browser
 Name: lynx
 Version: 2.8.9
-Release: 10%{?dist}
+Release: 11%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 Source: https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx%{version}rel.%{devrel}.tar.bz2
 URL: http://lynx.browser.org/
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ BuildRequires: zlib-devel
 
 # provides /usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html used as STARTFILE on RHEL
 %if 0%{?rhel} && !0%{?eln}
-Requires: redhat-indexhtml
+# The redhat-indexhtml package is not yet available for RHEL-9 (#1915205)
+#Requires: redhat-indexhtml
 %endif
 
 %description
@@ -61,7 +62,9 @@ exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.
 %{!?_pkgdocdir: %global _pkgdocdir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}}
 sed -e "s,^HELPFILE:.*,HELPFILE:file://localhost%{_pkgdocdir}/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html,g" -i lynx.cfg
 %if 0%{?rhel} && !0%{?eln}
-sed -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html,' -i lynx.cfg
+# The redhat-indexhtml package is not yet available for RHEL-9 (#1915205)
+#sed -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html,' -i lynx.cfg
+sed -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:https://access.redhat.com/,' -i lynx.cfg
 %endif
 
 %build
@@ -134,6 +137,9 @@ EOF
 %config(noreplace,missingok) %{_sysconfdir}/lynx-site.cfg
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 29 2021 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-11
+- temporarily remove the run-time dependency on index-html (#1915205)
+
 * Wed Dec 30 2020 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-10
 - remove unused build-time dependency on slang-devel (#1910966)