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You need to create a proper catkin workspace as described in

catkin/Tutorials/create_a_workspace

Particularly it is to point out that you need to source the created setup.bash each time you open a new shell ( or add it to your ~/.bashrc; make sure to change the path to the correct one for your installation ):

source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

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