How do I reinstall all my software that I backed up on an external drive

I had to reinstall the OS to my MacBook Pro because my wife did a security update and when she restarted the system it was stuck on the grey screen w/ the apple and would not go any further. I did a complete back up of my system using DeJavu a few months ago to an external hard drive. Now what I want to do is copy everything from my external hard drive to my hard drive on the MacBook Pro. (Applications, Library, System & Users) How do I do this?

Brilliant ssprengel!!
Sorry for slow reply -hectic.
Your suggestion: Double-click the catalogname.lrcat file to open it in LR.
Perfect, this was THE vital piece of information that I needed!
I couldn’t find this anywhere -or at least failed to see it if I did…
Could authors please, please include this absolutely vital information in their LR guides.
I now have my complete image library working on my laptop -bliss.
It IS faster.
How much I don’t know yet until I get stuck into my next editing task...
Many thanks

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