Use CM Roman (latex font) in Inkscape?

It is actually very easy to get the Computer Modern fonts working under Ubuntu, because the fonts can be installed directly from the Ubuntu repositories

sudo apt-get install fonts-cmu

"cmu" is short for "cm-unicode". The fonts appear as "CMU Serif" and "CMU Sans Serif" etc. in font selection screens.

This has been tested with version Kubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Further help (in German) related to fonts can be found at http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Schriftarten

You should actually download and install a ttf or otf version of the Computer Modern Roman font in order to be able to use it in inkscape. I did it in the past, but I have to look up the download link. This might do it: http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net/download.html. You could also check (and maybe copy) your Fedora fonts directory.