diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index c89284cd..8d5b2304 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@ include *.txt
 recursive-include doc *.txt
 include *.md
 recursive-include doc *.md
+include *.cfg
+recursive-include doc *.cfg
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9ccf3990..27ebf975 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ setup(name = 'GPy',
       url = "http://sheffieldml.github.com/GPy/",
       packages = ['GPy', 'GPy.core', 'GPy.kern', 'GPy.util', 'GPy.models', 'GPy.inference', 'GPy.examples', 'GPy.likelihoods', 'GPy.testing', 'GPy.util.latent_space_visualizations', 'GPy.util.latent_space_visualizations.controllers', 'GPy.likelihoods.noise_models', 'GPy.kern.parts', 'GPy.mappings'],
       package_dir={'GPy': 'GPy'},
-      package_data = {'GPy': ['GPy/examples']},
+      package_data = {'GPy': ['GPy/examples', 'gpy_config.cfg']},
       py_modules = ['GPy.__init__'],
       long_description=read('README.md'),
       install_requires=['numpy>=1.6', 'scipy>=0.9','matplotlib>=1.1', 'nose'],