mono exe

After using Mono for a while, you'll probably get sick of running programs using the mono command. Fear not though, since there's a little-known Linux feature ready to rescue you: miscellaneous binary format support. This lets you specify applications to run different types of files, much like file associations in Nautilus or Konqueror. Try these commands:

modprobe binfmt_misc
mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
echo ':CLR:M::MZ::/usr/bin/mono:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

If everything goes well, running Mono EXE files should work transparently. Put these commands into an appropriate startup script and you should be set. If you're running Debian though, you shouldn't have to bother - the Mono packages are built to set up miscellaneous binary support automatically