Installing iTunes to a removable drive

edit, fixed the problem.

No. iTunes is already installed on your internal and needs to be on the boot drive.
You can put the iTunes library on your external.
Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the extenral.
Hold Option, launch iTunes , select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.

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