diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b984889..6940741 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def read(fname):
     license="Apache2",
     keywords="nlp computational_linguistics tibetan tokenizer token",
     url="https://github.com/OpenPecha/botok",
-    packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=["tests"]),
     long_description=read("README.md"),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     project_urls={