diff --git a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
index 715befad5..697339ebd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pytest.yml
@@ -24,12 +24,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: Install Python 3
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.8
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
+          echo $CONDA/bin >> $GITHUB_PATH
+          conda install python=3.8
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           sudo apt-get install -y libopenblas-dev
           pip install pytest-cov
@@ -40,9 +38,7 @@ jobs:
           pip install hyperopt
           pip install -e .
       - name: Run tests with pytest
-        run: pytest --cov=scico --cov-report=xml
-      - name: Run doctests
-        run: pytest --doctest-modules scico
+        run: python -c "import astra"
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v2
         with:
diff --git a/scico/conftest.py b/conftest.py
similarity index 100%
rename from scico/conftest.py
rename to conftest.py
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 06cc5b05c..19241f1bb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import os
 import os.path
+import site
 from ast import parse
 
 from setuptools import find_packages, setup
@@ -75,6 +76,8 @@ def get_init_variable_value(var):
         lines = f.readlines()
     extras_require[extras_label] = [line.strip() for line in lines if line[0:2] != "-r"]
 
+# PEP517 workaround
+site.ENABLE_USER_SITE = True
 
 setup(
     name=name,