diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
index 4b2b8d20..d2282c93 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
@@ -37,18 +37,20 @@ jobs:
           TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TEST_PYPI_TOKEN }}
         run: twine upload dist/* --skip-existing --repository=testpypi
 
-      - name: Test installing from test PyPI and running tests
-        run: |
-          python -m pip install uv
-          uv pip install --system -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple datatrove[testing]
-          python -m nltk.downloader punkt
-          make test
-
       - name: Get tag name
         id: get_tag_name
         run: |
           echo TAG_NAME=$(grep '^version' pyproject.toml | head -1 | cut -d '"' -f 2) >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
+      - name: Test installing from test PyPI and running tests
+        # install the wheel we just uploaded to testpypi directly, and all other dependencies from normal pypi
+        # uses the version number to fetch the url of the .whl file
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install uv
+          uv pip install --system datatrove[testing]@$(curl -s https://test.pypi.org/simple/datatrove/ | grep ${{ steps.get_tag_name.outputs.TAG_NAME }}-py3 | sed -nE 's/.*href="([^"]+)".*/\1/p')
+          python -m nltk.downloader punkt
+          python -m pytest -sv ./tests/
+
       - name: Tag the release
         uses: actions/github-script@v7
         with: