Found a nice document on setting up
USB for GPhoto on Linux. GPhoto is a backend set of libraries, a commandline utility, and a frontend, all aimed at helping one extract and manipulate images residing on the memory in one's digital camera. The Canon A95 is thankfully supported. The document goes over how to get USB cameras to be automatically mounted and permissions issues. Stuff I didn't know. It's also good to see it's on the GPhoto site. We'll see how it goes this evening.