Unfortunately no one has made ubuntu packages yet, however here is a script that I built based on Dirk’s post to automate mono 1.9 installation onto Ubuntu environments.
#!/bin/sh # This is needed to pick up our built mono for commands export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH apt-get install build-essential bison gawk apt-get install libglib2.0-dev apt-get install libpng12-dev libx11-dev libfontconfig1-dev apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev apt-get install libungif4-dev libexif-dev libcairo2-dev apt-get install libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libglade2-dev apt-get install libgnome2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomeui-dev apt-get install libgnomeprint2.2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev apt-get install libpanel-applet2-dev libgtksourceview-dev apt-get install libgtkhtml3.14-dev BUILDDIR=~/mono-build mkdir -p $BUILDDIR cd $BUILDDIR wget http://go-mono.com/sources/libgdiplus/libgdiplus-1.9.tar.bz2 tar xvf libgdiplus-1.9.tar.bz2 cd libgdiplus-1.9 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://go-mono.com/sources/mono/mono-1.9.1.tar.bz2 tar xvf mono-1.9.1.tar.bz2 cd mono-1.9.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nant/nant-0.86-beta1-src.tar.gz tar xvf nant-0.86-beta1-src.tar.gz cd nant-0.86-beta1 make install --prefix=/usr/local cd .. wget http://go-mono.com/sources/gtk-sharp210/gtk-sharp-2.10.4.tar.bz2 tar xvf gtk-sharp-2.10.4.tar.bz2 cd gtk-sharp-2.10.4 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://go-mono.com/sources/gnome-sharp2/gnome-sharp-2.16.1.tar.gz tar xvf gnome-sharp-2.16.1.tar.gz cd gnome-sharp-2.16.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://go-mono.com/sources/gtksourceview-sharp2/gtksourceview-sharp-2.0-0.12.tar.bz2 tar xvf gtksourceview-sharp-2.0-0.12.tar.bz2 cd gtksourceview-sharp-2.0-0.12 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. cd mono-1.9 wget http://go-mono.com/sources/monodoc/monodoc-1.9.zip unzip monodoc-1.9.zip cd monodoc-1.9 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd ../.. wget http://go-mono.com/sources/mono-tools/mono-tools-1.9.tar.bz2 tar xvf mono-tools-1.9.tar.bz2 cd mono-tools-1.9 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono-debugger/mono-debugger-0.60.tar.bz2 tar xvf mono-debugger-0.60.tar.bz2 cd mono-debugger-0.60 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/heap-buddy/heap-buddy-0.2.tar.gz tar xvf heap-buddy-0.2.tar.gz cd heap-buddy-0.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/mono-addins/mono-addins-0.3.1.tar.bz2 tar xvf mono-addins-0.3.1.tar.bz2 cd mono-addins-0.3.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd .. wget http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources/monodevelop/monodevelop-1.0.tar.bz2 tar xvf monodevelop-1.0.tar.bz2 cd monodevelop-1.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install cd ..