diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "mpsd_software_manager"
+authors = [{name = "SSU-Computational Science (Fangohr et al)", email = "ssu-cs@mpsd.mpg.de"}]
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+classifiers = ["License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License"]
+readme = "README.rst"
+
+dependencies = [
+    "archspec",
+    "rich"
+[project.scripts]
+mpsd-software = "mpsd_software_manager.mpsd-software:main"
+
+[project.urls]
+Home = "https://gitlab.gwdg.de/mpsd-cs/mpsd-software-manager/"
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "black",
+    "pytest",
+    "pytest-mock",
+    "pytest-cov",
+    "ruff",
+]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+addopts = [
+    "--import-mode=importlib",
+]
+pythonpath = "src"
diff --git a/src/mpsd_software_manager/__init__.py b/src/mpsd_software_manager/__init__.py
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+"""mpsd-software: tool for installation of software as on MPSD HPC."""
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diff --git a/mpsd-software-manager/mpsd-software.py b/src/mpsd_software_manager/mpsd-software.py
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rename from mpsd-software-manager/mpsd-software.py
rename to src/mpsd_software_manager/mpsd-software.py