Comment 5 for bug 1587876

Trying to install this package on my Dell XPS 15 (2015) laptop and it fails.

Upstream: https://launchpad.net/i8kutils

$ sudo apt install i8kutils -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2 gjs libgjs0e
  libmission-control-plugins0 libmozjs-24-0v5 libtelepathy-logger3 telepathy-idle
  telepathy-logger telepathy-mission-control-5
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  acpi tclx8.4
Suggested packages:
  tclx8.4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acpi i8kutils tclx8.4
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
Need to get 121 kB of archives.
After this operation, 437 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 acpi amd64 1.7-1 [13,8 kB]
Get:2 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 tclx8.4 amd64 8.4.1-1 [81,1 kB]
Get:3 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 i8kutils amd64 1.41 [25,9 kB]
Fetched 121 kB in 0s (1.860 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package acpi.
(Reading database ... 284969 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/acpi_1.7-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking acpi (1.7-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tclx8.4.
Preparing to unpack .../tclx8.4_8.4.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tclx8.4 (8.4.1-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package i8kutils.
Preparing to unpack .../i8kutils_1.41_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking i8kutils (1.41) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Setting up acpi (1.7-1) ...
Setting up tclx8.4 (8.4.1-1) ...
Setting up i8kutils (1.41) ...
Job for i8kmon.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status i8kmon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript i8kmon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package i8kutils (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 i8kutils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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