Install software on a different hard drive

I have multiple external drives. How can I set them up so I can install applications on them? Every time I install software it loads on the built in hard drive.

Besides everything Steve359 had to say, it is usually the media that the application works with that takes up the large amount of disk space. So what I do is keep my applications on the system disk in the Applications folder and the have a secondary drive that I call Projects where I keep my media files.
Allan

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