diff --git a/lynx-2.8.9-redhat.patch b/lynx-2.8.9-redhat.patch
index 7857150..8cdce92 100644
--- a/lynx-2.8.9-redhat.patch
+++ b/lynx-2.8.9-redhat.patch
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:17:08 +0100
 Subject: [PATCH] lynx-2.8.6-redhat.patch rebased for 2.8.9
 
 ---
- lynx.cfg   | 15 +++++++++++----
+ lynx.cfg   | 18 ++++++++++++------
  userdefs.h | 18 +++++++++---------
- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
+ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/lynx.cfg b/lynx.cfg
 index f01782f..ccc0846 100644
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ index f01782f..ccc0846 100644
  #
  # As an alternative, you may want to use a local URL.  A good choice for this is
  # the user's home directory:
+@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ HELPFILE:http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html
+ # An index to your CWIS can be placed here or a document containing
+ # pointers to lots of interesting places on the web.
+ #
+-DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
++DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://www.google.com/
+ 
+ .h1 Interaction
+ 
 @@ -454,7 +456,7 @@ DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
  # Find RFC 1345 at
  .url http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1345
@@ -42,18 +51,26 @@ index f01782f..ccc0846 100644
  
  .h2 LOCALE_CHARSET
  # LOCALE_CHARSET overrides CHARACTER_SET if true, using the current locale to
-@@ -1847,6 +1849,10 @@ DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
+@@ -467,7 +469,7 @@ DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
+ # values and their relationship to the locale value is not.  GNU libiconv
+ # happens to give useful values, but other implementations are not guaranteed
+ # to do this.
+-#LOCALE_CHARSET:FALSE
++LOCALE_CHARSET:TRUE
+ 
+ .h2 HTML5_CHARSETS
+ # HTML5_CHARSETS is an alternative to ASSUME_CHARSET and ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET.
+@@ -1847,6 +1849,9 @@ DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://scout.wisc.edu/
  .ex
  #DOWNLOADER:Save OS/390 binary file: iconv -f IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 %s >%s:FALSE
  
 +# Added by Red Hat:
 +DOWNLOADER:View with less:less %s:TRUE
 +
-+ 
  .h1 Interaction
  
  .h2 NO_DOT_FILES
-@@ -3447,6 +3453,7 @@ COLOR:6:brightred:black
+@@ -3447,6 +3452,7 @@ COLOR:6:brightred:black
  #ENABLE_LYNXRC:VI_KEYS:ON
  #ENABLE_LYNXRC:VISITED_LINKS:ON
  .fi
diff --git a/lynx.spec b/lynx.spec
index 8543b5c..c194444 100644
--- a/lynx.spec
+++ b/lynx.spec
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ BuildRequires: telnet
 BuildRequires: unzip
 BuildRequires: zip
 BuildRequires: zlib-devel
-BuildRequires: perl-interpreter
 
 # provides /usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html used as STARTFILE on RHEL
 %if 0%{?rhel}
@@ -57,11 +56,9 @@ exits quickly and swiftly displays web pages.
 %patch3 -p1
 
 %{!?_pkgdocdir: %global _pkgdocdir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}}
-perl -pi -e "s,^HELPFILE:.*,HELPFILE:file://localhost%{_pkgdocdir}/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html,g" lynx.cfg
-perl -pi -e "s,^DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:.*,DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE:http://www.google.com/,g" lynx.cfg
-perl -pi -e 's,^#LOCALE_CHARSET:.*,LOCALE_CHARSET:TRUE,' lynx.cfg
+sed -e "s,^HELPFILE:.*,HELPFILE:file://localhost%{_pkgdocdir}/lynx_help/lynx_help_main.html,g" -i lynx.cfg
 %if 0%{?rhel}
-perl -pi -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html,' lynx.cfg
+sed -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html,' -i lynx.cfg
 %endif
 
 %build
@@ -108,8 +105,6 @@ make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 # Install Lang dependent resources
 mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/
 
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/X11/applnk/Internet
-
 cat >$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/lynx-site.cfg <<EOF
 # Place any local lynx configuration options (proxies etc.) here.
 EOF
@@ -127,6 +122,7 @@ EOF
 
 %changelog
 * Tue Jul 25 2017 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-0.17.dev16
+- do not depend on perl
 - update upstream project URL
 - update to the latest upstream pre-release