Spring RTS Engine

Thanks so much for your help. I'm not having luck with updating the repositories, so I downloaded the static binary (.7z). But where do I extract this? It seems like there might be some installation script I'm not seeing... The help on the site here isn't clear on this detail and I'm a bit of a noob...

I'm trying to run Spring for the first time on Ubuntu 13.10. When I launch a single player game from the lobby, a splash screen appears for less than a second and then the game crashes. I suspect this is a video card thing. I tried both the open source and proprietary driver for my video card, and g...