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I'd suggest that you generally don't modify and recompile the stock installation but if you want to, then you need to:

sudo bash
. /opt/ros/diamondback/setup.bash   // assuming you have diamondback installed
roscd {desired package}
rm ROS_NOBUILD         // in each package that you want to recompile
rosmake

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