New Mac, need to link to my itunes folder

So before I sold my other mac, I copied off my iTunes folder to an external drive. Now I have my new mac, and I have this external drive with my tunes on it, and I want to keep them there and point to it.
I have searched all around and keep doing it wrong, apparently, so I could use some pointers as to how I can easily link to the iTunes folder that is currently sitting on my drive.

Hold the Option key when starting iTunes.
Select the iTunes library file in the iTunes folder on the external.

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