diff --git a/data/example b/data/example
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..3cfc163ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/example
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../example
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swarm.cabal b/swarm.cabal
index 301fcb518..2994a7c50 100644
--- a/swarm.cabal
+++ b/swarm.cabal
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ extra-source-files:
   editors/vim/*.lua
   editors/vim/*.vim
   editors/vscode/syntaxes/*.yaml
-  example/*.sw
 
 extra-doc-files: docs/image/sublibrary-graph.svg
 data-dir: data/
 data-files:
   *.txt
   *.yaml
+  example/*.sw
   scenarios/**/*.sw
   scenarios/**/*.txt
   scenarios/**/*.yaml