I see what confused you: there is no package called mono
in Fedora.
However, it seems that the main functionality is provided by mono-core
:
# yum info mono-core
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name : mono-core
Arch : i686
Version : 2.10.5
Release : 1.fc16
Size : 12 M
Repo : fedora
Summary : The Mono CIL runtime, suitable for running .NET code
URL : http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
License : MIT
Description : This package contains the core of the Mono runtime including its
: Virtual Machine, Just-in-time compiler, C# compiler, security
: tools and libraries (corlib, XML, System.Security, ZipLib,
: I18N, Cairo and Mono.*).
That's probably what you will want to install first.
Then to do some development, you would probably want the mono-devel
package, and a few other libraries depending on what you actually want to do. (e.g gnome-sharp
for GNOME development in .NET, etc...)
Yum can help you find a list of mono-related packages in Fedora:
# yum list \*mono\*
Of course, not all mono-related packages contain "mono
" in their names (I already provided gnome-sharp
as an example), so you'll have to search a bit for the rest. Hopefully this should get you started though.
Finally, for IDEs, the above "yum list
" command tells me you can get monodevelop, but there might be others:
# yum install monodevelop
Note: I might be completely wrong as I've never done any Mono development. :)