I wonder what make install does that after successfully running this command after I just compiled a source package, my system becomes aware of the new installed package.Let's assume I have retrieved a pre-compiled Linux package from somewhere for my distribution and want to use install rather than merely cp to install the whole unzipped package under /usr/local making sure that I do everything that a typical sudo make install does for this package. I tried running sudo install -r -T ./[pre-compiled package] /usr/local aiming to recursively copy everything to /usr/local, but it fails and seems to do nothing. 
How to do everything that 'make install' does with 'install' for a pre-compiled package?
fedora;software installation