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You need to create a workspace to put your code inside and be able to use it there.

This topic is covered in the beginner tutorials: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials I'd recommend working through all of those as it will cover this topic as well as a bunch of other ones which will help you be able to debug your system.

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