Permission errors roscreate-pkg using ROS electric without rosws

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Hello,

I've been able to find questions similar to the one, but they all end being resolved in a way that I don't think I can choose.

I'm running ROS Electric on a turtlebot laptop and have another computer running ROS Fuerte. Both are as updated as possible. They are both network properly and can communicate well.

The problem I am having is common, I can't create new packages anywhere because of a permission error. I have no problems on my workstation computer, just the laptop running ROS Electric. Here is the terminal output below after running this command (occurs through ssh or on the laptop itself) from ~/ros_workspace

    robolab@robolab:~/ros_workspace$ roscreate-pkg robonav
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/electric/ros/bin/roscreate-pkg", line 35, in <module>
    roscreate.roscreatepkg.roscreatepkg_main()
  File "/opt/ros/electric/ros/tools/roscreate/src/roscreate/roscreatepkg.py", line 125, in roscreatepkg_main
    create_package(package, author_name(), depends, uses_roscpp=uses_roscpp, uses_rospy=uses_rospy)
  File "/opt/ros/electric/ros/tools/roscreate/src/roscreate/roscreatepkg.py", line 63, in create_package
    os.makedirs(p)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/robolab/ros_workspace/robonav'

I've tried tirelessly to get the package path's set correctly and when I do

echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH

it shows this.

/home/robolab/ros_workspace:/opt/ros/electric/share:/opt/ros/electric/stacks

What more must I do to tell ROS where my stuff should go... Keep in mind I don't have rosws since this is electric. Below are the lower contents of my ~/.bashrc file and my setup.sh file.

Bash file

source /opt/ros/electric/setup.bash
export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.0.214:11311
export ROS_HOSTNAME=192.168.0.214
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros_workspace:/opt/ros/electric/share:/opt/ros/electric/stacks
export ROS_WORKSPACE=~/ros_workspace

setup file

export ROS_ROOT=/opt/ros/electric/ros
export PATH=${ROS_ROOT}/bin:${PATH}
export PYTHONPATH=${ROS_ROOT}/core/roslib/src:${PYTHONPATH}
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros_workspace
export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=/opt/ros/electric/stacks:${ROS_PACKAGE_PATH}