Can't Install FreeTDS via Yum Package Manager

Question

I tried following the instructions in the article below but it says, "No package freetds available."

http://www.hosting.com/support/linux/installing-freetds-for-linux/

This is my I/O:

[root@mydomain ~]# yum search freetds
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.web-ster.com
 * extras: mirror.beyondhosting.net
 * updates: mirrors.sonic.net
=============================== Matched: freetds ===============================
php-mssql.x86_64 : MSSQL database module for PHP
[root@mydomain ~]# yum install freetds
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.web-ster.com
 * extras: mirror.beyondhosting.net
 * updates: mirrors.sonic.net
Setting up Install Process
No package freetds available.
Error: Nothing to do

How can I install freetds? I am just trying to connect to SQL Server!

Edit:

After yum install php-mssql:

[root@mydomain ~]# yum install php-mssql
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.web-ster.com
 * extras: mirror.beyondhosting.net
 * updates: mirrors.sonic.net
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-mssql.x86_64 0:5.4.13-1.el6.remi will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libsybdb.so.5()(64bit) for package: php-mssql-5.4.13-1.el6.remi.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php-mssql-5.4.13-1.el6.remi.x86_64 (mt_dv_extras)
           Requires: libsybdb.so.5()(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Answer 1

If you don't want to use the RPM Forge packages, freetds and php-mssql are also available in EPEL.

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install freetds freetds-devel