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The right way to do this is to create your own catkin package outside workspace where the whole ROS was compiled. Then you have to source your new workspace adding e.g. source ~/my_package/devel/setup.bash to your .bashrc file. If ROS still can't see your package try typing rospack profile command and it should find it.

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