diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d7fa0864607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+include *.md
+include LICENSE
+include setup.py
+recursive-include yolov5/data *
+recursive-include yolov5/models *
+recursive-include yolov5/models_v5.0 *
+include yolov5/requirements.txt
diff --git a/build_wheel.sh b/build_wheel.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..d22717596c27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_wheel.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+python3 -m pip install --upgrade build
+mkdir yolov5
+cp -r data models models_v5.0 utils .pre-commit-config.yaml $(ls *.py) requirements.txt yolov5/
+grep --include=\*.py -rnl 'yolov5/' -e "from models" | xargs -i@ sed -i 's/from models/from yolov5.models/g' @
+grep --include=\*.py -rnl 'yolov5/' -e "from utils" | xargs -i@ sed -i 's/from utils/from yolov5.utils/g' @
+sed -i '$d' yolov5/requirements.txt
+cat > yolov5/__init__.py << EOF
+from yolov5.utils.general import NM_INTEGRATED
+EOF
+python3 -m build
+rm -r yolov5
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0f076532a06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=42"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 36f39017d6af..c6a19e789077 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ seaborn>=0.11.0
 # pycocotools>=2.0  # COCO mAP
 # roboflow
 thop  # FLOPs computation
-sparseml[torch,torchvision] >= 0.12
\ No newline at end of file
+sparseml[torch,torchvision] >= 0.12
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..09083e299981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import setuptools
+import os
+
+def read_requirements():
+    build_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+    with open(os.path.join(build_dir, "yolov5", "requirements.txt")) as f:
+        return f.read().splitlines()
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    name="yolov5",
+    version='6.1.0',
+    author="",
+    long_description=open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8").read(),
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    url="https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5",
+    packages=['yolov5', 'yolov5.models', 'yolov5.utils'],
+    python_requires=">=3.6",
+    install_requires=read_requirements(),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    package_data={'': ['yolov5/models/*.yaml', 'yolov5/data/*']},
+    classifiers=[
+        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)",
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+        "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+        "Topic :: Education",
+        "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
+    ]
+)
diff --git a/utils/general.py b/utils/general.py
index a8181bbaf5ee..f0a7859ff78a 100755
--- a/utils/general.py
+++ b/utils/general.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 NUM_THREADS = min(8, max(1, os.cpu_count() - 1))  # number of YOLOv5 multiprocessing threads
 VERBOSE = str(os.getenv('YOLOv5_VERBOSE', True)).lower() == 'true'  # global verbose mode
 FONT = 'Arial.ttf'  # https://ultralytics.com/assets/Arial.ttf
+NM_INTEGRATED=True
 
 torch.set_printoptions(linewidth=320, precision=5, profile='long')
 np.set_printoptions(linewidth=320, formatter={'float_kind': '{:11.5g}'.format})  # format short g, %precision=5
@@ -405,7 +406,11 @@ def check_file(file, suffix=''):
         return file
     else:  # search
         files = []
+        if "models_v5.0/" in file:
+            files.extend(glob.glob(str(ROOT / '**' / file), recursive=True))
         for d in 'data', 'models', 'utils':  # search directories
+            if file.startswith(d + os.path.sep):
+                file = file[len(d)+1:]
             files.extend(glob.glob(str(ROOT / d / '**' / file), recursive=True))  # find file
         assert len(files), f'File not found: {file}'  # assert file was found
         assert len(files) == 1, f"Multiple files match '{file}', specify exact path: {files}"  # assert unique