diff --git a/metadata.txt b/metadata.txt
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--- a/metadata.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-name="coleto"
-version="0.1.0"
-date="2021-02-07"
-author="Christof Schöch"
-author_email="c.schoech@gmail.com"
-description="Tool for text comparison."
-programming_language="Python3"
-license="MIT License"
-operating_system="OS independent"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+++ b/setup.py
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+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(
+    name='coleto',
+    version='0.1.0',
+    date="2021-02-07",
+    author="Christof Schöch"
+    author_email="c.schoech@gmail.com"
+    description="Tool for text comparison."
+    programming_language="Python3"
+    license='MIT Licence',
+    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+)