In this article i will explaining how to install Novel’s Mono,Mono-develop IDE for .net applications in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and Mysql Configuration for Mono in Ubuntu 9.10 .For people who are new to Mono here is quick introduction
Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET developed by Novel Corporation.
Mono-develop is an opensource C# and .net Integrated development environment for Linux .