As long as this plugin is not a standard Maven plugin, it must be installed manually. This is very easy.

If you have a binary distribution of the plugin, just copy the plugin jar file to your $MAVEN_HOME/plugins directory. and the simian jar file to $MAVEN_HOME/repository/simian/jars.

If you have a source distribution of the plugin, installing the plugin is just as easy. Just run

from the root directory of the unpacked distribution.

To enable the plugin add the following to your project.xml's /project/reports node:

For further details about how to use the plugin, see the Goals and Properties pages.