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You need to export the package paths correctly. As you allready noticed your packages can not be found. The reason is most likely that you did not correct setup the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH variable.

you can check the Path by:

echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

The output shows the paths which ROS is searching for Packages.

Check also this page here

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