I have been having a play using MS Azure through Ubuntu, but in order to manage my Azure Server, it's asked me to install Silverlight which has then directed me to install Mono.

I've downloaded Mono but the Archive Manager won't open it.

Reading around, I am guessing this is because I am running a 64-bit system, and I gather that to get Mono running in 64-bit, it needs installing through code.

I'm super new to both Ubuntu and Linux. Please advise what to run in a terminal session in order to get Mono installed so that I can get back to Azure.