diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 644f5253e103c99367096eff0d44d1456ae88ba7..e93c522bb01912a5495367494ae59e76edc8e0e7 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements_continuous_integration.txt
 commands =
 ; install current version of flatland to be used by notebooks
-    sh -c 'python setup.py'
+    sh -c 'python setup.py install'
 ; run tests from subfolder to ensure that resources are accessed via resources and not via relative paths
     sh -c 'mkdir -p {envtmpdir}/6f59bc68108c3895b1828abdd04b9a06'
     sh -c 'jupyter nbextension install --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension'