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In my opinion you would benefit from cleaning up your .bashrc, ideally there should only be one line in it regarding ROS workspaces, which could be:

$ source ~/ros_workspace/setup.sh

This setup.sh in ~/ros_workspace could best be created using rosws or rosinstall, and it would set the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH for you.

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